Lower Colorado River Authority Awaits EPC Bids for Combined-Cycle Power Plant

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) (Austin, Texas) is planning to build a natural gas-fired combined-cycle unit at the Thomas C. Ferguson Power Station in the city of Horseshoe Bay, in Burnet County, Texas. Construction will commence later this year, and the plant is scheduled to begin operating in 2014.

LCRA expects to receive bids in February for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from a shortlist of companies, which includes:

• Black & Veatch (Kansas City, Missouri) - Houston, Texas, office
• Fluor Corporation (NYSE:FLR) (Irving, Texas) - Aliso Viejo, California Office
• SNC Lavalin Constructors (Bothell, Washington), a subsidiary of SNC Lavalin Group Incorporated (TSX:SNC) (Montreal, Quebec)
• The Houston office of The Industrial Company (Steamboat Springs, Colorado), a division of Peter Kiewit Sons' Incorporated (Omaha, Nebraska)

The plant will consist of one or more gas combustion turbine/generator sets with one or more heat recovery steam generators to drive a steam turbine/generator that will provide 560 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity, while using 35%-40% less fuel than the existing 420-MW unit that is currently in use.

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