The Babcock and Wilcox Co's Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. Secures $150 Million Environmental Equipment And Construction Services Contract For Wisconsin Power Plant

The Babcock and Wilcox Co announced that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) has been awarded a contract worth approximately $150 million to design, supply and erect environmental equipment for Alliant Energy subsidiary Wisconsin Power and Light Company’s (WPL) coal-fired Columbia Energy Center in Pardeeville, Wis. B&W PGG will engineer and supply four spray dry absorber (SDA) systems, two pulse jet fabric filters, a lime preparation system, ash recycle systems and related equipment for Columbia Units one and two. B&W PGG’s subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co., Inc. will erect and install the environmental equipment. Engineering work for the project is currently underway, with construction to begin in October 2012.