Louisville Gas & Electric's 750-MW Trimble County 2 coal-fired power plant is running about six weeks behind its early completion target of March 15, 2010, but hopes are high that construction will wrap up on the $1.1 billion project by June of that year. A recent report filed with the Kentucky State Board on Electric Generation and Transmission Siting by the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency and Indiana Municipal Power Agency provided an update on the project more than three years after the board approved the joint action agencies' participation (EUW, 21 Nov '05, 6). IMEA owns a 12.12% stake in Trimble 2, IMPA a 12.88% share. Together, they are expected to contribute about $250 million to the project and control about 190 MW of capacity. LG&E, an E.ON US subsidiary, owns the remainder of the plant. IMEA and IMPA also own a combined 25% interest in the original 547-MW Trimble County baseload coal plant built two decades ago. The plant is located near Bedford along the Ohio River in Trimble County, about 50 miles east of Louisville. Bechtel Power was selected as engineering, procurement and construction contractor for Trimble 2 in August 2005. Bechtel mobilized on the site the week of July 3, 2006. Construction has been under way since then. Significant progress has been made in all areas of construction, according to the report: The main foundations are complete, the turbine and boiler structural steel erection is essentially finished, installation of the boiler pressure parts and air pollution control equipment is ongoing, and the turbine generator components have arrived at the site.
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