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| GenPower releases Foster Wheeler for project in West Virginia Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced that a subsidiary within its Global Power Group has received a full release to proceed on its contract from Longview Power, LLC for the design and supply of a supercritical once-through pulverized-coal (PC) steam generator for Longview's coal-fired generating facility located in Monongalia County, West Virginia. Longview is a 100 percent-owned subsidiary of GenPower Holdings, L.P., which is jointly owned by GenPower, LLC and First Reserve Corporation. The Longview plant will be one of the largest private investments in the history of West Virginia. The total contract value of approximately $200 million will be included in Foster Wheeler's first-quarter 2007 bookings. The contract calls for Foster Wheeler to provide Longview with a 695 (net) megawatt electric (MWe) state-of-the-art PC steam generator utilizing Siemens advanced BENSON vertical tube supercritical steam technology. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |