Tag: Dominion

The members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on August 29th approved a natural gas pipeline expansion project of Dominion Transmission Inc.

US power plant operator Dominion has announced plans to close and decommission its Kewaunee Power Station in Carlton, Wisconsin after the company was unable to find a buyer for the 556-megawatt nuclear facility.

Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas Inc. (MPSA) said the first commercial M501GAC gas turbine has been shipped from the Savannah Machinery Works in Georgia, just 18 months after the USD 325M gas turbine manufacturing and service facility was dedicated.The shipment marks the first of three M501GAC gas turbines and one steam turbine that will be delivered to Dominion Virginia Power for the 1,300MW Warren County Power Station in Front Royal, Va.Earlier this year, MPSA received a second order from Dominion to supply three gas turbines and one steam turbine for the Brunswick County Power Station in southern Virginia.

Dominion has said it intends to pursue the sale of three fossil fuel-fired merchant power stations, one in Massachusetts and two in Illinois. One of the stations, Brayton Point Power Station, is a 1,536 MW power station in Somerset, MA with three coal-fired units and one unit fired by oil or natural gas.

Fluor Corporation announced today that it was awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract by Dominion Virginia Power to build its new Brunswick County Power Station, a combined-cycle, natural gas-fired power station in Brunswick County, VA.