Firms awarded $110m deal to replace equipment at Ottumwa plant

July 31, 2013 Wayne Barber Generation

A joint venture between Babcock & Wilcox (NYSE:BWC) and Burns & McDonnell has been awarded a $110m contract to replace auxiliary equipment at Interstate Power and Light (IPL) Ottumwa coal power plant in Ottumwa, Iowa.

IPL is part of Alliant Energy (NYSE:LNT)

B&W announced the agreement July 31. The scope of the project includes turbine rotor replacement, boiler pressure parts replacement, and balance of plant equipment, as well as construction services. The boiler’s pressure parts will be designed and supplied by B&W.

B&W announced in 2012 that the joint venture was awarded a contract to engineer, procure and construct (EPC) the plant’s environmental control systems. The auxiliary equipment replacement will be performed concurrently with the plant’s previously planned environmental upgrades. Material delivery for this portion of the project is scheduled for July 2014.

Ottumwa is listed as in GenerationHub data as a 726-MW (nameplate) facility that burns sub-bituminous coal. IPL has said it plans to install an SO2 scrubber system at Ottumwa.

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Wayne Barber, Chief Analyst for the GenerationHub, has been covering power generation, energy and natural resources issues at national publications for more than 20 years. Prior to joining PennWell he was editor of Generation Markets Week at SNL Financial for nine years. He has also worked as a business journalist at both McGraw-Hill and Financial Times Energy. Wayne also worked as a newspaper reporter for several years. During his career has visited nuclear reactors and coal mines as well as coal and natural gas power plants. Wayne can be reached at wayneb@pennwell.com.