SPX Awarded Contract to Provide Dry Cooling System for Major Natural Gas Power Plant
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — SPX Corp. announced that its Thermal Equipment and Services segment has been awarded a contract to supply an air-cooled condenser (ACC) for a new 1.3 GW natural gas-fired, combined cycle power plant. Dominion Virginia Power, a subsidiary of Dominion, plans to build the new power station facility in Warren County, Va.
The contract was awarded to SPX by Warren County Energy Partners, a joint venture of Burns & McDonnell and Zachry Industrial Inc., and calls for SPX to supply one of the biggest ACCs in the world in what is expected to be one of the largest combined cycle power plants ever installed in the Americas. The Warren County Power Station is scheduled to be constructed on a 39-acre site in Warren Industrial Park, approximately three miles north of Front Royal, Va.