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Experience
makes the difference when it comes to providing the
highest quality, reliable operating and maintenance
services for utility and power generating
facilities. Take a look at ours at Primesouth. For
information,
e-mail
us now or call
(803) 354-4200.
West Texas
Primesouth invested in a multimillion dollar wind generation project in West Texas when the project began commercial operations in June of 1999 and we continued our O&M services for this project until the summer of 2007.
The four wind turbines generate a total of six and one half megawatts and are located in Big Springs, Texas. The turbines stand more than 370 feet high. All electricity generated is sold to Texas Utilities Electric Co. under a long-term power purchase agreement. The project represents Primesouth’s first investment in renewable energy wind power, an extremely cost effective power source that’s feasible in only a few locations in the United States. The turbines represented an excellent investment opportunity and broadened our business base into environmentally friendly "green power". The wind forces the three blades of the turbine (216 feet in diameter) to rotate and, through a gearbox, turn a generator. The gearbox, generator and step-up transformer are all housed in a pod which is mounted on top of a 200-foot tower.
The pod rotates to keep the turbine facing into the wind. The wind turbines start generating electricity when the wind speed reaches nine miles per hour (mph) and produce their full output with a wind speed of 38 mph. If the wind reaches 56 mph, the turbine shuts down to protect itself from damage
Griffith Energy Facility
Primesouth provided operations and maintenance services for the Griffith Energy Project from January 2002 when the project began commercial operations until the summer of 2007. This is a 600-megawatt natural gas-fired combined cycle, merchant power facility located near the city of Kingman, Arizona. The zero discharge facility employs a state-of-the-art water treatment system to conserve water consumption. Twenty-two employees operate and maintain the facility.
CRSS Viking Operations, Inc.
Primesouth performed under a renewable O&M agreement
for CRSS Viking Operations, Inc. from December 1989
through April 1996. This contract covered three
18-MW power plants located in Michigan and
Pennsylvania, with a combined total of 60 employees.
Each consisted of a traveling grate stoker
wood-fired Zurn boiler and a De Laval steam turbine.
CRSS Hopewell Operations, Inc.
Primesouth performed under a renewable O&M agreement
for CRSS Hopewell Operations, Inc. The facility is a
356-MW, combined cycle, dispatchable gas-fired
cogeneration facility located in Hopewell, Virginia.
The facility consists of three 90-MW ABB gas turbine
generators and associated heat recovery steam
generators, one steam turbine generator set, and two
special process steam generators (B & W Package
Boilers). Natural gas is the primary fuel, with #2
fuel oil used as backup. Primesouth was involved in
start-up, training and commissioning for the
Hopewell plant in June 1989.
General Motors
Primesouth provided powerhouse management to the
General Motors powerhouse in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
which is primarily a steam plant and wastewater
operation.
Lyonsdale Cogeneration Facility
The Lyonsdale facility is a 19-MW wood-fired plant
located in Lewis County, New York. The facility was
developed by Diamond Energy, Inc., a subsidiary of
Mitsubishi Corporation, and is currently owned by
Primary Power Investments. The facility consists of
one traveling grate stoker wood-fired Zurn boiler
and a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc. steam
turbine. Primesouth employed as many as 24 people at
the facility to perform operations, maintenance and
management services.
Trinity Power Limited
(formerly InnCOGEN Limited)
Primesouth’s first international O&M contract was
with InnCOGEN, Ltd., to operate a 224-megawatt
simple cycle power plant in Couva, Trinidad (West
Indies). InnCOGEN, Ltd. sells power to the Trinidad
& Tobago Electricity Commission. The gas-fired
generating facility (3 GE 7EA combustion turbines)
began commercial operations in September 1999.
Savannah River Project
Primesouth, Inc. operated the U.S. Dept. of Energy powerhouse at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina from 1995 until January 2006. The project
is a 70-megawatt pulverized coal facility consisting
of four Alstom-CE boilers, three GE high-pressure
steam turbines and four Westinghouse low-pressure
steam turbines. The facility supplies steam
throughout SRS via approximately 14 miles of steam
piping with electrical generation going to the SCE&G
system. The facility was operated and maintained by
59 employees.
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