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Kansas City, Mo., March 18, 2002 -- Black & Veatch announces it has joined with Barton Malow in a joint venture agreement under the name BVBM-Hunterstown to provide full design, procurement, delivery, construction, startup, testing and initial operation of the Reliant Energy Hunterstown, LLC power project.
The plant is being built adjacent to an existing substation on a 307-acre parcel of land in Straban Township, Adams County, Pa., approximately one mile from Hunterstown, Pa. and approximately five miles from Gettysburg, Pa.
The plant will be equipped with an air-cooled condenser to reject heat from the steam cycle, thus reducing the overall project water consumption to less than one tenth of the water used from natural gas powered generating facilities using conventional wet cooling towers.
The Hunterstown power project will use one of the largest air-cooled condensers on a combined cycle power plant in the United States. Reliant is developing the plant in an effort to enhance reliability and availability of electrical service to the surrounding region.
The plant features a 3-on-1 combined cycle design composed of three GE 7FB gas turbine generators; three triple-pressure reheat cycle heat recovery steam generators (HRSG), each equipped for supplemental duct firing; and one reheat condensing steam turbine generator for a total nominal capacity of 800 MW. The combustion turbines will be designed to fire natural gas and will be equipped with dry low NOx burners. The HRSGs will be equipped with a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system to control NOx emissions.
The facility's electrical output will be fed into an adjacent, existing 500 kV substation that is being expanded to accommodate the interconnection. Commercial operation for the plant is scheduled for June 2003.
About Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch Corp. is a global engineering, construction and consulting company specializing in infrastructure development in the fields of energy, water and information.
Founded in 1915, Black & Veatch serves its clients with conceptual and preliminary engineering services, engineering design, procurement, construction, financial management, asset management, information technology, environmental, security design and consulting, and management consulting services.
Headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., the employee-owned company has more than 90 offices worldwide. Black & Veatch is ranked 80th on the Forbes "500 Top Private Companies in the U.S." listing for 2001. The company's Web site address is www.bv.com.
About Barton Malow
Barton Malow Co., founded in 1924, provides design, program management, construction management, design/build, general contracting, technology and rigging services.
The company specializes in meeting the facility needs of industrial, energy, health care, educational and special event facility owners nationwide. Barton Malow is headquartered in Southfield, Mich., and has offices in Atlanta, Ga.; Baltimore, Md.; Detroit, Mich.; Charlottesville, Va.; and Phoenix, Ariz. For more information, visit Barton Malow's Web site at www.bartonmalow.com.
About Reliant Resources
Reliant Resources, based in Houston, Texas, provides electricity and energy services to wholesale and retail customers in the United States and Europe, marketing those services under the Reliant Energy brand name. The company has nearly 18,000 MW of power generation capacity in operation, under construction or advanced development, or under contract in the United States.
It will become the second largest unregulated power generator in the United States after completion of its pending merger with Orion Power. Reliant Resources is one of only five companies to rank among both the 10 largest power marketers and the 10 largest natural gas marketers in North America. The company also has wholesale trading and marketing operations and nearly 3,500 MW of power generation in operation in Western Europe.
At the retail level, Reliant Resources provides energy services and will serve approximately 1.7 million customers in Texas when the electricity market opens to full retail competition in January 2002. Reliant Resources is currently a majority owned subsidiary of Reliant Energy (NYSE: REI).
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