RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The accolades
for Dominion Virginia Power's Brunswick County Power Station keep
rolling in. Tuesday, the station received two top honors: Best
Overall Generation Project of the Year and Best Gas-Fired Project
of the Year at the Power-Gen International 2016 Conference in
Orlando, Florida.
The highly efficient, low-emissions Brunswick County Power
Station was selected based on technological innovation, local
impact, logistical challenges, creativity and capacity. The
Power-Gen Conference is sponsored by Power Engineering
magazine.
"Since it began generating electricity for our customers in
April, Brunswick County Power Station has become a workhorse for
our company. It is providing clean, reasonably priced electricity
for our customers and demonstrating that it certainly is one of the
best power stations of its kind in the world," said Mark Mitchell, vice president-Generation
Construction.
Mitchell noted that the station helps reduce carbon emissions in
addition to providing reliable and lower-cost energy. The station
produces electricity with about half the carbon as power purchased
from the regional grid when operating on peak.
In November, Dominion and Fluor Corporation -- which built and
designed Brunswick County Power Station for Dominion -- received
two awards from Engineering News-Record Mid-Atlantic. The
station was honored as Best Project in the Energy/Industrial
category and Excellence in Safety Best Project.
Brunswick uses natural gas and
energy efficient technology to produce 1,358 megawatts of
electricity, enough to power 340,000 homes. Brunswick has three Mitsubishi Hitachi
combustion turbines – essentially large jet engines. The combustion
turbines generate electricity and then heat is captured and used to
create steam used to create even more electricity.
Construction on the station began in the summer of 2013. At the
height of construction, the station had more than 1,500 workers on
site.
Brunswick County joins its
sister station, Warren County Power Station, as recipient of Power
Engineering's top award. Warren
County was the winner in 2015.
About Dominion Virginia Power
Dominion Virginia Power is a subsidiary of Dominion
(NYSE: D), one of the nation's largest producers and transporters
of energy. Dominion provides energy or products and services to
more than 6 million customers. It has a portfolio of approximately
26,000 megawatts of generation and 6,500 miles of electric
transmission lines. Dominion also operates one of the nation's
largest natural gas storage systems with 1 trillion cubic feet of
storage capacity. For more information about Dominion, visit the
company's website at www.dom.com.
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