AKRON (Ohio), December 15, 2010/PRNewswire / - of FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) environmental modernization of its plant in Sammis w. h. Stratton, Ohio, received an honorable mention for project Power Engineering magazine's award of the year, announced yesterday evening ceremony Gala POWER - GEN International Conference and exhibition in Orlando, Florida. This marks the second time in two weeks than FirstEnergy five-year, $ 1.8 billion project was honored with a prestigious industry awards. On 2 December 2010, Platts named modernization Sammis plant his project of the year.
"We are honoured to be still once recognized w. h. Sammis Plant of the renovations of the most important and most difficult air quality control project in the history of the electrical industry," said Gary Leidich, Executive Vice President and President of FirstEnergy generation. "Despite the challenges of design - space particularly serious limitations due to being surrounded by the Ohio River, Cumberland and dam, Ohio State Road Highway 7, the village of Stratton and a railway line lock Sammis plant - our amazing team was able to complete the project on time and in the initial budget."
The prize was shared with Bechtel Power Corporation, the contractor engineering, design and supply the majority of the project and the general contractor for the construction; Babcock & Wilcox for design and installation of key components of the project - scrubbers and SCR; equipment and Stantec Consulting Services to provide engineering services.
"Being chosen as finalist for a total of 16 entrants is a feat and himself," said Sharryn Dotson, President, Power Engineering Projects of the year. "" "This gave the project Sammis stand was the amount of emissions should be reduced and the limited space available to install systems." Those who worked on the project should be very proud of their efforts.
The modernization included Sammis plant:
15 000 tonnes of steel - enough to build 97 Liberty52, statues 400 yards cubic concrete - enough for a sidewalk in Ohio, Washington, D.c. D.C.568 kilometres of electrical cable - enough to go to Savannah, Georgia Sammis plantAt the height of the building, 2 200 artisans worked on Sammis plant site. Overall, more than 10 million hours worked in the modernization project. During construction, approximately 15,000 security sessions and briefings took place which resulted in lost time incident rate that was significantly lower than the average of the construction industry. In addition, August 4, 2008, although that 27 March 2009, workers registered 2,361,734 consecutive hours without a lost time injury site.
FirstEnergy is a diversified energy company headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Its subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in the production, transmission and distribution of electricity, as well as management of energy and other energy-related services. Its seven electric utility operating companies are fifth largest investor-owned electric system of the nation, based on 4.5 million customers served in an area of 36, 100 - square - mile of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; and its subsidiaries generation control approximately 14,000 megawatts of capacity.
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