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NRG Begins Construction on New Peaking Plant Near Houston
November 05,2014 NRG Energy, Inc. today announced that construction has begun on an approximately 360 megawatt, natural gas-fired peaking plant at a site near Bacliff, Texas, southeast of Houston. The new facility will be located on a 230-acre site which was once part of the former PH Robinson power plant. It will use natural gas to power six GE 7E fast-start combustion turbines. The units require no water for cooling. NRG said that it will construct the project at a cost of approximately $400 per kilowatt. The gas turbines will be relocated from a site in New Albany, Mississippi to the Houston area at a location NRG already owns and is immediately adjacent to the switchyard where they expect to connect to the transmission grid. The facility will be built by a partnership between BTEC Turbines and Rockland Capital, the current owners of the New Albany plant. For the Bacliff project, BTEC will perform the engineering, procurement and construction of the new power plant which includes the dismantling and shipment of the turbines from Mississippi. The plant is expected to be transferred to NRG upon completion. Construction is anticipated to be completed in late 2015. In addition, NRG is in final stages of the permitting process for two large natural gas-fired plants in the Houston region. The company has been granted a permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for a new 850 megawatt combined cycle plant and expects to receive environmental permits for a second 850 megawatt facility in early 2015.
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