New Jersey Company’s 665-Megawatt Coal Power Plant Under Construction in Arkansas

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Plum Pont Energy Associates, LLC (PPEA), whose majority owner is LS Power Development, LLC (East Brunswick, New Jersey), with minority interests by Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility (Chesterfield, Missouri), East Texas Electric Cooperative, Incorporated (Nacogdoches, Texas) and Empire District Electric Company (Joplin, Missouri), has a 665-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station being built in Mississippi County, near Osceola, Arkansas. The engineering, procurement, and construction (E+P+C) is being performed by Plum Point Power Partners (PPPP), a tri-venture of Black and Veatch (Kansas City Missouri), Gilbert Central Corporation, and Zachry Construction Corporation (San Antonio Texas).

The construction started March 2006 on the new station at a 900-acre site and will employ up to 1,200 personnel. The unit will utilize a coal-fired subcritical drum boiler provided by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Company (Tokyo, Japan), a Toshiba steam turbine/generator (STG) and Alstom selective catalytic reduction (SCR) to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx), flue gas desulfurization (FGD) scrubber to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon injection to reduce mercury (Hg) emissions, and a baghouse to reduce particulate matter (PM).

Once operational in mid-2010, the plant will employ about 75 personnel. The low sulfur coal (Wyoming Powder River Basin) will be delivered by rail. As an additional environmentally friendly issue of the new plant, it will also use a cooling tower so as to not use water directly from the Mississippi River for cooling the condenser.

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