Lansing Board of Water & Light Plans Maintenance & NOx Reduction Outage

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL), the municipal utility for the city of Lansing, Michigan, is planning a 5-Week Outage at their 375-megawatt (MW) Eckert station for January 2003. Maintenance and NOx Reduction work will be performed on 80MW Unit #5 during the 5-Week outage.

During the outage, which the BWL plans to self-perform, they are going to install a separated over-fired air system on the coal front-fired dry bottom Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) boiler (650,000 lbs/hr, 1250psig @ 950F) to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions to meet state and federal regulations. The BWL will also perform normal maintenance on balance of the boiler and the 80MW General Electric (GE) steam turbine/generator.

The Lansing Board of Water and Light is a municipal utility, owned by the citizens of Lansing, Michigan. BWL was founded in 1885, when Lansing citizens approved a $100,000 bond issue to build a water system to provide for drinking water and fire protection. Electricity was added to the list of utility services in 1892, and steam heat in 1919. Owned and operated by the city of Lansing, the BWL has grown to become the 3rd largest electric utility in the state, and the largest municipally owned utility in Michigan. By owning the BWL, citizens enjoy electric rates that are the lowest in the state, averaging 20 percent or more below the average rates of other utilities in Michigan. BWL has 680MW of electric capacity, 660,000 pounds per hour of steam capacity, 10,000 tons per hour of chilled water capacity, and 50 million gallons per day of potable water.