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Charlotte Firm Gets $75 Million NIPSCO Contract

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The Babcock & Wilcox Company announced today that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co., Inc. (BWCC) has been awarded a contract worth more than $75 million to provide construction services for the installation of environmental equipment at Northern Indiana Public Service Company’s (NIPSCO) R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield, IN.

The Charlotte, NC-based company will erect and install two B&W-designed wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) absorber vessels, and associated reagent slurry preparation and dewatering equipment for the plant’s 465 megawatt (MW) Unit 14 and 515 MW Unit 15 coal-fired utility boilers. BWCC also will procure and erect the absorber and dewatering island structural steel for the wet FGD systems.

B&W previously announced it would design and supply the wet FGD units and related components for the project.

“B&W’s environmental project capabilities – from equipment design and manufacturing, to project management and construction services – position us to provide our utility customers with solutions to meet all of their emissions control upgrade needs,” said BWCC President Pete Waanders. “We appreciate NIPSCO selecting B&W to execute this significant project.”

Start-up of Schahfer Unit 14 is scheduled for fall 2013 and Unit 15 for fall 2015.

Notes: Indiana Revenue Forecast Comes Up $1.8 Billion Short

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With lower tax revenues forecast to create a $1.8 billion budget deficit over the next two years, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says the state will drain the reserve fund to zero, but will still need at least $300 million in education cuts to balance the budget.

The Environmental Protection Agency will use $13 million in Great Lakes restoration funds on engineering projects in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to stop Asian carp from getting into the Great Lakes.

The Michigan City Redevelopment Commission approved a $150,000 grant to create a downtown “artist’s colony.”

Ironworkers Local 395 celebrated the opening of their new union hall Tuesday.

By damming a culvert to create a water supply, firefighters in Wheatfield managed to extinguish a pesky muck fire than had been burning since June.

A museum, a hospital and a casino were all suggested as possible new uses for the College Football Hall of Fame building in South Bend. The Hall is relocating to Atlanta next year.