Project Owner:
Calpine Corporation

Completion Date: August 2002

The Acadia Energy Center was constructed by a joint venture of Calpine Corporation and Central Louisiana Electric Cooperative (CLECO) as a merchant plant in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.

This 4-on-2, 1050 MW combined cycle plant consists of four Siemens Westinghouse 501FD combustion turbines, four Nooter Eriksen three-pressure reheat HRSGs with duct burners and two Siemens 210 MW steam turbines with 100% turbine bypass systems. It also includes six ABB generator step-up (GSU) transformers, a 650 gpm two-pass RO system and a Siemens Teleperm DCS controls system.

Utility Engineering (UE) was responsible for all detailed civil/structural, mechanical, electrical and controls balance of plant (BOP) engineering including all procurement specifications. Zachry was the general contractor on this project and commercial operation occurred in August 2002.

Services Performed:

• Plant layout
• Detailed BOP engineering
• Procurement specifications
• Field engineering
• As-built documentation
  

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