First Entry Date: 3/1/2013
     Revision Date: 3/1/2013

                 Location: TX    
                 Startup Date: 2016
                 Size: 726  MW
                 Primary Fuel: Gas    
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Alert1116     FGE Texas to build New 726 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant in Mitchell County

FGE Texas LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of FGE Power LLC, has announced plans to build a new 726 MW gas-fired power plant in Mitchell County, Texas. The 2x1 combined cycle power plant will use Alstom Thermal Power's next generation KA-24 platform and is due to be one of the most efficient gas plants in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). It will also possess a unique dispatch flexibility to respond to ERCOT's peak load demands and wind power intermittency. The plant will have access to natural gas from the area's rapidly developing Cline Shale formation. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2013 and the new plant should begin commercial operation in 2016. The project is expected to cost $500 million.

Emerson Farrell, President and CEO of FGE Power, LLC.

“We are calling our project here in Mitchell County FGE Texas. It will be a next-generation, high efficiency gas plant, which we feel is critical at this time, both for Texas and our country,” Farrell said. “We hear about job losses continuously and the best way to change that tide is through infrastructure and development projects such as ours.”

Contact

FGE Power

21 Waterway Avenue

Suite 300

The Woodlands, TX 77380

(281) 362-2830

 1.    Third party to provide water, Young says

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According to Mitchell County Board of Economic Development’s Sue Young, the county will not be providing brackish water for the new power plant to be built in Westbrook, as was previously published. “Mitchell County is not providing the water,” Young said. “It will be a third party that supplies the water.”

Young said it was unknown at this time who that third party would be. When asked about an interview with R. Ross McCausland, immediately following last week’s press conference regarding the new power plant, where McCausland said the project would use roughly 2 million gallons of the county’s water, Young said he had, “misspoken.”

According to section 2.01. of the Memorandum of Agreement between Mitchell County and FGE Texas LLC, water shall be supplied, as such:  The county shall work with FGE and their Desalination LLC to option and contract sufficient sources (water wells) of brackish aquifer water and requisite pipelines to move such water to the site of the Texas power plant in an estimated daily amount of 2.0 to 4.5 million gallons, such volume is per phase (eg. FGE Texas I) and shall be refined after further analysis by engineers of well water and optimal water treatment designs to maximize efficiency of the water use by the power plant, for at least 40 years from the initial time of operation of the power plant. In addition to optioning sufficient water supplies, the county will assist FGE in permitting with Lone Wolf Groundwater Conservation District, Texas Railroad Commission, TCEQ and any other applicable state agency.