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24 September 2004 - Stanley Consultants has been selected by East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) to design and provide resident engineering services a new 278 MW electric coal-generation unit at the co-op's Spurlock Station in Maysville, Kentucky.
The new unit, Spurlock Station Unit 4, will be identical to the E.A. Gilbert Generating Unit, which is in the final stages of construction and will go on-line in April 2005. The Gilbert unit was also designed by Stanley Consultants, a worldwide provider of engineering, environmental, and construction services.
"Stanley Consultants has been working with EKPC for over 40 years," says Steve Schebler, senior vice president and Power & Energy Market Leader with Stanley Consultants. "We designed Units 1, 2 and 3 at Spurlock Station. This project continues our long-lasting relationship with EKPC." The new unit will take four years to design and construct, and will create up to 700 construction jobs and 70 permanent jobs.
Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher announced the project on Sept. 15, 2004 at the Spurlock plant site.
Roy Palk, president and CEO of East Kentucky Power Cooperative, said the new generating unit will use a technology that is arguably the most reliable, affordable - yet proven - clean coal technology on the market.
At a cost of more than $400m each, both units will rank among America's cleanest coal-generating units. The units will operate with a clean-coal technology known as a Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) process, which is recognized for extremely low emissions. The process removes 98 per cent of the sulphur dioxide, and it produces five times less nitrogen oxide than conventional pulverized-coal units.
The power will be shipped to East Kentucky Power's 16 member electric cooperatives, which serve about 480 000 Kentucky homes, farms, businesses and industries across 89 counties.
Both Spurlock Unit 4 and the Gilbert Unit will have the capability to burn several million tires a year and 150 000 tons of biomass such as sawdust and other wood products. "East Kentucky Power may be able to help the state to dispose of tires that are now winding up in illegal dumps," said Palk.
Construction of the unit is subject to approval from the Kentucky Public Service Commission and federal environmental approval under the National Environmental Policy Act.
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