Duke/Fluor Daniel Wednesday announced that it has been awarded a turnkey
contract by Dearborn Industrial Generation, L.L.C., which is a company
formed by CMS Energy Corp. and DTE Energy Services, to build a
550-megawatt power plant at the Rouge complex in Dearborn, Mich.
Duke/Fluor Daniel will provide engineering, procurement, construction,
commissioning, startup and testing services for the $240 million
project. Duke/Fluor Daniel's contract value was not disclosed.
"We are very pleased to be working with CMS Energy again and with DTE
Energy Services for the first time on this major new cogeneration
project in Michigan," said Clarence Ray Jr., president of Duke/Fluor
Daniel. "This clean, energy-efficient cogeneration plant will
significantly reduce air emissions by replacing the existing 75-year-old
powerhouse at Rouge."
The new cogeneration plant will be fueled by natural gas and
blast-furnace gas, a by-product of the steel-making process, and will
provide electric power and steam for the Rouge Steel Co. and Ford Motor
Co. facilities. Engineering has been underway since November 1998 and
construction mobilization began last month.
The first combustion turbine generator is scheduled to begin operation
in simple cycle by July 1999 and combined cycle in the spring of 2000,
with full operation of the entire facility expected in June 2001. At the
project's peak, Duke/Fluor Daniel will employ 75 workers at its office
in Irvine, Calif., and 600 at the plant construction site.
In the late 1980s, Fluor Daniel built for CMS Energy and its partners
the 1,370-megawatt Midland Cogeneration Venture (MCV) plant in Midland,
Mich., the largest such project in operation in North America.
Duke/Fluor Daniel, a partnership formed in 1989 by Duke Energy Corp. and
Fluor Daniel, provides comprehensive engineering, procurement,
construction and plant operating services for fossil-fueled electric
power generation facilities worldwide.
Visit Duke/Fluor Daniel on the Internet at www.d-fd.com.
Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE:DUK) is a global energy company with more than
$26 billion in assets. Duke Energy companies develop, build, own and
operate energy facilities, and provide engineering, management,
operating, maintenance and environmental services.
Fluor Daniel is the engineering, construction, maintenance, technical
and diversified services subsidiary of Fluor Corp. (NYSE:FLR). In 1998,
Fluor Corp.'s sales were $13.5 billion.
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