Tri-State Generation Setting Turbines In Brighton, Colorado

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Inc.; Houston, Texas). Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Incorporated (Westminster, Colo.), a privately held member wholesale power supplier, has begun the process of setting two turbines at the Brighton Generation Station in Brighton, Colorado.

Construction began back in March of 2001 on this $45 million, 140 mega-watt (MW) power plant that will utilize natural gas and diesel to generate electricity for the greater Denver area and provide peaking power during high demand periods.

The plant will utilize two General Electric model 70A turbine generators that will deliver approximately 70MW each to the grid. Both turbines have arrived on the site located at 13501 Powhaton Road in the town of Brighton located some 17 miles northeast of Denver. The generators will be delivered and installed sometime in late December. Commissioning of both units is scheduled for the spring of 2002.

26 rural electric cooperatives and public power districts formed Tri-State in 1952 as a central source of wholesale power. The member systems served a combined total of 41,000 end-use consumers. To date, Tri-State completed a merger with Plains Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative of Albuquerque, N.M., thereby adding 12 New Mexico cooperatives to its member distribution system network.