Wisconsin Proposed 300 MW Peaking Plant Finds New Owner

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Alliant Energy Generation Incorporated (AEG), a totally owned subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation (NYSE: LNT) (Madison, Wisconsin), is working with Power Ventures Group LLC (PVG), a subsidiary of Burns & McDonnell (Kansas City, Missouri), an 105-year old engineering and construction management firm, to assume the development and construction rights for a $150 million 300+ megawatt (MW) peaking power plant (Plant 1060604, PEC 19001185) to be constructed near Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. The natural gas-fired simple-cycle power plant would help Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WP&L) meet the growing regional need for peaking electrical power that will be required for 2005 and beyond.

PVG announced plans a year ago that they intended to build this plant and have started working on permitting and government approval. The plant will be located at the intersection of Highway 23 & Bridgewood Road. PVG received their certificate of need from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin in mid-December. PVG is to obtain all the state and local approvals before they sell to AEG. AEG will construct and finance the plant and then lease it to sister company WP&L who will operate it.

The power plant is proposed to incorporate two natural gas-fired combustion turbines General Electric (GE) MODEL MS 7001FA (170+ WM) with the availability to install a third at a later date (about 2010). The units will have the best available emission controls including SmartBurnSM to minimize air emissions. The units will be installed on a 15-acre footprint of a 40-acre site. The plant will employ about 150 people during construction and with other plants close by to share operational responsibilities will only require a staff of 2-8 employees. The construction of the plant, if all approvals are received, is scheduled to start during the third quarter of 2004, whereby it would be operational by June 2005.