Shaw lands contract to install equipment in Oregon power plant

The Shaw Group announced this morning it has landed a contract with Portland General Electric to install emissions-reduction equipment at Boardman Station, a 585-megawatt coal-fired power plant in northeastern Oregon. Shaw will engineer, procure and construct a dry sorbent injection system and balance-of-plant equipment that it says will significantly reduce sulfur dioxide emissions from the plant. The value of the contract was not disclosed. “As new air regulations are finalized on both the federal and state levels, power generators are taking proactive steps in developing compliance strategies,” says Andy Dupuy, president of the Fossil Division of Shaw’s Power Group. “We currently are seeing a trend in the use of dry sorbent injection as a way of giving clients flexibility in implementing a relatively inexpensive process to reduce sulfur emissions for the short term.” Shaw says it has performed emissions retrofits on more than 40,000 megawatts’ worth of generation at power plants over the past decade, making it a leading provider of air-quality and emissions-control systems.