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New renewable energy, communication, and transmission projects add balance and scope to the nuclear and fossil generation markets on which our Power business is built. The Hanna Region Transmission Development Project will expand and upgrade an electrical transmission system in southeastern Alberta for ATCO Electric.
In 2011, Bechtel continued its work on a nationwide wireless network upgrade for AT&T Mobility.
For NextEra Energy, we are performing complex extended power uprates at the St. Lucie nuclear power plant in Florida (below) and two other nuclear facilities, increasing the plants’ output with dozens of major power train modifications.
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Bechtel’s Renewables business gained momentum in 2011 as we were selected for our first utility-scale solar photovoltaic project, SunPower’s California Valley Solar Ranch near San Luis Obispo. The project is an impressive complement to our ongoing work at Ivanpah, which will be the world’s largest solar thermal power facility. It is also a tribute to our success in streamlining extensive rollouts of the small, replicable tasks involved in solar array deployment and cell tower construction. On-time completion of AT&T Mobility’s large-scale next-generation wireless build-out in North America has our Communications business line well positioned for further network expansions. Our Transmission market segment achieved contract selections and early execution on two projects in Canada for ATCO Electric. We are nearing completion of the 1,600 megawatt, clean-coal Prairie State Energy Campus project in Illinois, which will provide power to eight Midwest utilities. Our team at Prairie State has recorded numerous process improvements in safety, quality, and productivity. In other fossil work, we mobilized at Calpine Corporation’s Russell City Energy Center project. This San Francisco Bay Area project showcases the combined-cycle technology tools and experience refined by our power engineers during the past two decades. We have also added a business to our portfolio—Fossil Generation Services. The group draws on expertise companywide to help power plant owners with short-term engineering assignments. We expect that top performance on smaller-scale projects of this type will build our global power business while keeping us involved with U.S. customers. The new group has booked its first assignment in Texas, at the Sandow power plant operated by Luminant. In Nuclear, we successfully completed outages in 2011 on three large power plant uprates for NextEra Energy and continued providing services for the completion of two domestic nuclear facilities: engineering and construction at Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station and engineering at Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station, both for TVA. Generation mPower, our alliance to design and deploy small modular reactors, has a letter of intent from TVA to build its first small reactor. We also provided on-the-ground support to Tokyo Electric Power Company during the Fukushima recovery in Japan.
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