Georgia's Allatoona Hydro Station to Remain Offline for Rest of 2014

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Allatoona Hydro Power Station in Georgia will remain offline for the rest of the year following a fire in May, according to sources. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working to eventually restore operations at the 102-megawatt (MW) station, which is located in Cartersville on the shore of Allatoona Lake.

The station was undergoing a planned outage for the replacement of switchyard transformers and other equipment when the fire occurred on May 19.

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The fire caused no injuries and no damage to the Allatoona dam.

The power station consists of two 50-MW S. Morgan Smith hydraulic turbines with Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) (Munich, Germany) generators and one 2.3-MW Francis Allis-Chalmers hydraulic turbine with a Siemens generator. Plant sources said they were working to return Unit 4 online in January, and return units 1 and 2 online a month or two later.

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