Reliant Resources Installs New General Electric Equipment in Pennsylvania and Mississippi

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Reliant Resources Incorporated (NYSE: RRI) (Houston, Texas), the unregulated subsidiary of Reliant Energy Corporation (NYSE: REI) (Houston Texas), is about 50% complete on the expansion of the Hunterstown Station in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and the grassroots Choctaw Station in French Camp, Mississippi.

Both the expansion at the Hunterstown Station and the new Choctaw Station are each utilizing General Electric's (GE) new 184.4 megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired MS7251B combustion turbine/generators (CT) for the plants. These turbines are the first six Frame 7FB CT's that GE has manufactured. The first unit is presently being tested in Gettysburg. The design and engineering for both plants is being provided by Black & Veatch (Kansas City, Missouri).

GE Power Systems has approximately 30,000 employees around the globe. GE Power Systems a world leader in power generation technology and services. They provide equipment and support for all types of power generation (hydroelectric, wind, fossil, and nuclear). GE Power Systems is a division of General Electric (NYSE: GE) (Fairfield, Connecticut), which was founded in 1892 and has 300,000 employees with offices in over a hundred countries and in 2001 had revenues in excess of $125 billion.

Reliant is an international energy services and energy delivery company with approximately $46 billion in annual revenue and assets exceeding $29 billion. The company has nearly 31,000MW of power generation in operation in the U.S. and is one of the largest marketers of both power and natural gas in North America. The company also has wholesale trading and marketing operations and nearly 3,500MW of power generation in Western Europe.