Sargent & Lundy Has Hand in More than $5.4 Billion in U.S. Projects

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Sargent & Lundy (Chicago, Illinois) has gained a reputation as one of the top engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firms for the Power Industry throughout the world. Industrial Info is tracking more than $5.4 billion worth of projects in the U.S. involving the company, spanning a range of geographies.

Click on the image at right for a breakdown of active project involving Sargent & Lundy by U.S. market region.

As the U.S. power sector has shifted away from coal to natural gas and renewables, Sargent & Lundy has kept up with the times, and one of its biggest projects involves the conversion of a coal-fired unit to natural gas. Tampa Electric Company (Tampa, Florida) is in the process of converting Unit 1 at the Big Bend power plant in Apollo Beach, Florida, to a combined-cycle unit. Unit 2 at the facility will be retired. The project kicked off in the summer of 2019, and when completed in 2023, the unit will have a generating capacity of 1,090 megawatts (MW). Sargent & Lundy is providing design engineering services on the project, which has an estimated total investment value of $853 million. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.

In Michigan, Sargent & Lundy is providing engineering on the City of Lansing's 250-MW, combined-cycle unit addition at the Erickson Power Station. Construction kicked off last year and is expected to be completed in late 2021. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.

On the renewables front, one of Sargent & Lundy's biggest projects is underway in West Texas, which is becoming one of the nation's hotbeds of solar project activity. Construction on Orsted A/S' (Fredericia, Denmark) Permian Solar Energy Center near Andrews, about 40 miles northwest of Midland, kicked off in late 2019 and is expected to be completed in fourth-quarter 2021. The facility is being constructed on a 3,600-acre site and will include 1.3 million solar panels on a single-axis tracking system to generate 420 MW. Sargent & Lundy is the engineer. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.

While carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has proven to be expensive enough to act as a deterrent to most large-scale projects, Sargent & Lundy is providing its services on a couple of CCS projects in New Mexico and Illinois. Enchanted Energy Corporation (Farmington, New Mexico) is looking at installing CCS technology at the 895-MW San Juan Generating Station in Waterflow, New Mexico, which it will purchase in 2022 after the plant closes. Prairie State Generating Company LLC (Marissa, Illinois) is considering adding CCS technology to the 800-MW Unit 1 at the Prairie State Energy Campus in Marissa, Illinois. Both projects have price tags of $1 billion or more, and Industrial Info has given them a medium probability (70-80%) of moving forward as planned. For more information, see Industrial Info's project reports on the New Mexico and Illinois CCS projects.

On the power transmission front, Sargent & Lundy is performing engineering for Starwood Capital Group's (Greenwich, Connecticut) 96-mile, 500-kilovolt overhead transmission line from the planned Ten West switching compensation station to the existing Colorado River substation in Arizona. The project is planned to kick off later this year for completion by the end of 2021. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.

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