SWEPCO Uses What's on Hand

摘要

With the summer heat straining their Stalled capacity in the southeast region of the US and forcing out-of-market energy purchases, Southwestern Electric Power Co (SWEPCO), a unit of American Electric Power, saw a need to bring additional capacity online. Using existing natural gas pipelines and electric transmission lines, SWEPCO in 2006 made plans to build the 523 MW J. Lamar Stall gas-fired combined-cycle unit adjacent to the oldest plant in the SWEPCO system, the Arsenal Hill Power Plant in Shreveport, LA. Measured in terms of output and heat rate the plant operates better than the design basis. Now in full operation, the facility was constructed for about $800/kW.