Shaw Stone & Webster Awarded Contract for 500-Megawatt Combined-Cycle Unit Addition in Nevada

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Shaw Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation (Englewood, Colorado), a subsidiary of The Shaw Group Incorporated (NYSE:SGR) (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a 500-megawatt (MW) combined-cycle unit addition at NV Energy's Harry Allen Power Station in Apex, Nevada.

The combined-cycle unit will include two 171-MW General Electric (NYSE:GE) (Fairfield, Connecticut) Frame 7FA or equivalent combustion turbines, two heat recovery steam generators and one 156-MW steam turbine.

Construction is scheduled to start in spring 2009, and the unit is expected to become operational in late spring 2011.

The Harry Allen Power Station is a natural-gas-fired facility that became operational in 1995. It consists of two 77-MW simple-cycle combustion turbines.

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