Georgia Power Company Completes $250 Million Expansion at Alabama Station

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Georgia Power Company, a subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE:SO ) (Atlanta, Georgia), has completed construction and start-up testing of its $250 million 621-megawatt (MW) expansion at the H. Allen Franklin Power Station in Smiths, Alabama.

Construction for the project began in August 2006 and was completed this summer. Georgia Power anticipates full commercial start-up of the expansion in November. The project consisted of installing a two-on-one combined-cycle power block to the existing facility equipped with two 172-MW GE Power Systems MS7001FA combustion turbine generators, two duct-fired Deltak heat-recovery steam generators and one 277-MW ALSTOM Power Incorporated steam turbine generator. Once completed, the expansion project will boost the plant's capacity to 1,761-mw.

Southern Company hired BE&K Engineering Company (Birmingham, Alabama) to act as the turnkey engineering, procurement and construction services vendor for the project.

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