Shaw's Stone and Webster Awarded EPC Contract by Duke Power

Shaw Group's Stone and Webster unit, along with its consortium partner, ALSTOM Environmental Control Systems, has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract by Duke Power, a unit of Duke Energy, to retrofit the coal-fired generating units at Duke's Belews Creek power plant in Stokes County, North Carolina.

The flue gas desulfurization units, also known as 'scrubbers', will be designed to reduce as much as 95 percent of the sulfur dioxide emitted from the plant, significantly improving the quality of air emissions from the facility. Shaw will perform the majority of the project's engineering, procurement and construction. ALSTOM will design, engineer and procure the FGD equipment. Engineering is already in progress and ground has been broken on the construction at Belews Creek Steam Station. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2008. The total value of the project, including equipment, is estimated to be approximately $500 million.

J.M. Bernhard, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Shaw, said, "We are very pleased to begin this second scrubber retrofit project for Duke Power. Our first scrubber project at Duke's Marshall Steam Station, which is also being performed through a consortium with ALSTOM, is progressing very well and is expected to be completed in early 2007. We are especially proud that the work on the Belews Creek project will be led by our recently expanded Charlotte, North Carolina office. With its four-plant FGD Retrofit Project, Duke Power continues to be an industry leader in providing environmentally sound power to its customers."

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Posted 01/06/05

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