Washington Group International to Perform Clean-Air Retrofit Services at Allegheny Energy Power Plant

PR-inside; 2007-03-15 17:16:53

BOISE, Idaho and MORGANTOWN, W.Va., March 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Washington Group International announced today that it has been selected to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services for a major environmental project at Allegheny Energy’s Fort Martin Power Station near Maidsville, W.Va. This initiative is part of Allegheny’s extensive environmental stewardship program to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions.

As part of the $550 million project, Washington Group will provide engineering, procurement, and construction services for flue-gas desulfurization systems (scrubbers) at the 1,107-megawatt power plant. The scrubbers will be designed to remove more than 90 percent of the sulfur dioxide emissions from the station. In addition to the environmental benefits of the project, the system will enable the power plant to burn more local, high-sulfur coal. The retrofit is expected to be operational in 2009….([1] Full Story)