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| AMP-Ohio and Bechtel to construct a generation facility in Ohio A multi-billion dollar investment in southeast Ohio that will bring significant economic development while helping to stabilize electric power prices took an important step toward reality with the announcement that American Municipal Power-Ohio, Inc. (AMP-Ohio) and Bechtel Power Corporation (Bechtel) are partnering to construct a major electric generation facility in Meigs County in southern Ohio. AMP-Ohio President/CEO Marc Gerken said his organization signed the contract on January 8, naming Bechtel the engineer-procure-construct (EPC) contractor for the $3.25 billion American Municipal Power Generating Station (AMPGS) and granting the engineering firm a limited-notice-to-proceed on the project. The AMPGS project is an approximately 1,000 MW coal-fired generating plant, transmission line and associated facilities under development adjacent to the Ohio River in southern Meigs County. The facility will utilize the latest in proven, state-of-the-art emission control equipment, which will make the facility the cleanest in the region and one of the cleanest facilities of its type in the nation. AMPGS will supply power to 81 municipal electric systems in Ohio, Michigan, Virginia and West Virginia. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |