Award Recognizes Black & Veatch Combination of Advanced Technology, EPC Capability to Address Northeast Power Demand
Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station named Industrial Project
of the Year by Pennsylvania engineers
Black & Veatch’s work on a high-efficiency power generation station that
uses the latest gas turbine and water-cooling technology to deliver
clean power to more than 900,000 homes across the northeast U.S. has
been awarded the Industrial Project of the Year by the Engineers’
Society of Western Pennsylvania.
The Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station is a 926-megawatt natural
gas-fueled power plant located in Westmoreland County in Smithton, PA
and owned by Tenaska Pennsylvania Partners. Black & Veatch provided
engineering, procurement, and construction and startup (EPCS) services
for the project. Black & Veatch Construction, Inc., a part of the Black
& Veatch family of companies, began construction in 2016 and commercial
operation was achieved in December of 2018, well ahead of schedule,
addressing the region’s growing power demands while employing
air-quality technology to meet state and federal emissions standards.
“Using advanced, high-efficiency turbine technology and a recycled
water-cooling process, the Westmoreland project draws on our history of
combining large-scale EPC capability with technology that delivers clean
power,” said Todd Oppeau, Westmoreland Project Manager at Black &
Veatch. “Power customers benefit from a reliable source of efficient
energy, and we provided our client with a single point of contact across
all phases of the project.”
The station is located near Pittsburgh and supplies electricity to
customers in Pennsylvania and 12 other northeastern states that operate
in the PJM market. PJM is a regional transmission organization (RTO)
that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in the Northeast.
To maximize efficient water use during power generation, the plant
recycles water through the cooling process multiple times. In addition,
two new pipelines to deliver clean-burning natural gas to the plant are
connected to existing regional pipelines. The facility is in the heart
of the Marcellus and Utica gas shale fields; as a result it is expected
that this local resource will be the primary fuel supply source. The
project includes a 500Kv switchyard and switching station as well as 1.5
miles of power transmission lines to connect it to the PJM electric grid.
About Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch is an employee-owned, global leader in building critical
human infrastructure in Energy, Water, Telecommunications and Government
Services. Since 1915, we have helped our clients improve the lives of
people in over 100 countries through consulting, engineering,
construction, operations and program management. Our revenues in 2017
were US$3.4 billion. Follow us on www.bv.com and
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