Mirant Plans 2008 Outages at Potomac River Power Station

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Mirant Potomac River LLC (Alexandria, Virginia), a subsidiary of Mirant Corporation (NYSE:MIR) (Atlanta, Georgia), is already planning the 2008 outage schedule at the 460-megawatt Potomac River Power Station (Alexandria, Virginia).

Situated across the Potomac River from the White House, the coal/oil-fired facility is vital to the Washington D.C.'s electricity grid. It became operational in 1949 and consists of five units ranging from 80 MW to 100 MW.

Kicking off this spring, four- to five-week outages are scheduled on three of the units consecutively. The outages will consist of inspection and repairs to the General Electric turbine/generators and Alstom/Combustion Engineering boilers.

Major upgrades will be performed on the two remaining smaller units later in the fall. The project scope will include replacing the superheaters, tubes, valves, and waterwalls plus repairs to auxiliary components.

The units have already been equipped with low NOx burners (LNBs) and SOFA (Separated Overfired-Air) systems to reduce emissions.

Mirant Corporation also owns and operates the 2,600-MW Chalk Point Power Station (Aquasco, Maryland), and the 1,492-MW Morgantown Power Station (Newburg, Maryland) in the DC area.

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