Tenaska's Kiowa Power Partners Starts First Phase of 1,220 MW Plant 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), has commenced commercial operation of the first 610 megawatt (MW) train and is in testing for the second 610 MW unit of the 1,220 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 General Electric D-11 steam turbine/generator.

The first train came online in March 2003 and the second train's testing completion and scheduled in-service date is for May 2003. This station is unusual in that it is connected to two electrical Grids through the use of three service providers utilizing 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 developed about 9,000 MW and has over 7,500 MW 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-megawatt hours of electricity sales per year.