Tenaska's Kiowa Power Partners Gets Ready For Spring Start-Up of 1,220 MW in Oklahoma

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Kiowa Power Partners LLC a joint venture of Tenaska (Omaha, Nebraska) a privately held international energy developer and Diamond Generating Corporation a totally owned subsidiary of Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) is in the process of commissioning the 1,220-megawatt (MW) Tenaska Kiamichi generating station located near Kiowa, in Pittsburg county Oklahoma.

The Kiamichi generating station is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant. The station consists of two 610 MW trains each consisting of two General Electric (GE) combustion turbine/generator sets (GE MS7001FA), two (2) Deltak heat recovery steam generators (HRSG), and a GE steam turbine/generator.

The first train has a scheduled online date of March 1, 2003 and the second train is scheduled for April 1, 2003. This station is unusual in that it is connected to two electrical Grids (Tenaska's third) 69kV and 345kV. The station will be connected to the ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) regional grid thru AEP-Public Service Company of Oklahoma and to SPP (Southwest Power Pool) region S (Southern) sub-region thru WFEC an Oklahoma Transmission and Generation Cooperative (formerly known as Western Farmers Electric Cooperative) (Anadarko, Oklahoma). The power will be sold to Coral Energy (Houston, Texas) whose affiliate will provide the natural gas.

The station was built by the joint venture BVZ Power Partners-Kiowa in which Black & Veatch (Kansas City, Missouri) and Zachry Construction Company Corporation (San Antonio, Texas) provided the Engineering, Procurement and Construction.

Tenaska was formed in 1987 it is known for expertise in power generation and asset development, natural gas and electric power marketing and fuel procurement. Tenaska has developer about 9,000MW and has over 7,500MW in operation or under-construction, and another 4,000 in development. Their natural gas market handles over 2.8 billion cubic feet per day and averages over 4.3 million mega-watt hours of electricity sales per year.