Tampa Electric Confirms Startup and Repowering of 750 MW Natural Gas-Fired Unit

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Tampa Electric Company, a subsidiary of TECO Energy Incorporated (NYSE: TE), has confirmed the startup of the 750 MW Natural gas-fired Bayside Unit 1 and is currently underway for the construction and repowering of Unit 2.

Located in Hillsborough County at the 1,200 MW Bayside F J Gannon Power Station, the existing Bayside Unit 1 steam turbine, formerly called Old Gannon Unit 5 before being converted from coal to natural-gas, will include three GE Frame 7A combustion turbines and heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) and generate electricity from clean burning, efficient natural gas.

In 1999, Tampa Electric first announced plans to repower the 1,200 MW Gannon Power Station and convert coal to natural gas. Using natural gas with high efficiency, state-of-the-art emissions controls, Tampa Electric will be able to further significantly reduce emissions.

Sargent & Lundy, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, were the engineers involved on this project. Sargent & Lundy provides complete consulting, engineering, and project development services for all types of thermal power, nuclear power, and power delivery projects and have designed more than 850 fossil-fueled and nuclear plants for developers and regulated utility clients in the public and private sectors worldwide.

According to Industrialinfo.com's Southeast Online Plant Directory, there are approximately one hundred power plants in operation in Florida. Of those, sixty-seven are utility-owned and thirty-three are non-utility-owned generating plants.

TIC, The Industrial Company, also known as TIC Holdings, Incorporated, headquartered in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, was awarded the construction portion of the project. TIC, established in 1974, is a management owned general heavy industrial contractor and has rapidly become one of the leading industrial contractors in the world.