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Art Donaldson, a surveyor with ARTHUR DONALDSON SURVEYING in Rogers, works monday at the construction site of the Harry D. Mattison Power Project near Tontitown Arkansas.
Power Plant Gears Up NATURAL GAS-FIRED TONTITOWN FACILITY PREPAIRS FOR PEAK By John L. Moore
A natural gas-fired power plant in Tontitown should be online and ready to help this summer when the temperatures rise and air conditioners hum all day.
Workers for Southwest Electric Power, a unit of American Electric Power, are in start-up mode for two of the four 85-megawatt generators under construction at the Harry D. Mattison Power Plant east of Tontitown.
Construction on the $131 million project began in December after a hot summer and drought conditions forced the hydroelectric generator at Beaver Lake to reduce output at the same time electric utilities in the area faced peak consumption.
The project was already planned, but the energy demand during the summer months was high enough the utility fast-tracked the project, said Peter Main, a spokesman for the utility.
Southwestern Electric provides power to areas in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. The system had peak energy usage of 4,912 megawatts on Aug. 16.
Last summer, the utility asked industrial users in Northwest Arkansas to conserve power as they could. The forecast for this summer is much improved, Main said. Brad Johnson, general manager for Scurlock Industries in Fayetteville, said the plant has not had any problems with the utility and he was all for the utility and other area utilities investing in infrastructure improvements. Scurlock, with headquarters in Springfield, Mo., manufactures a variety of precast concrete products, including large drainage pipes, bridges and underground detention systems.
"I think they have done a good job keeping up." Johnson said. "Nobody could have predicted the huge amount of growth, we've had," he said.
The Tontitown plant is on 41 acres near a major switching facility for the utility, Main said. The switching station is like a major interchange between intestates, he said. Main said the company has awarded CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission contracts to construct compression and pipeline facilities to serve natural gas to the plant. The natural gas will be bought on the open market, he said. Right now, a 528-watt, coal-fired power plant in Gentry is the only baseload plant in the area, he said. A baseload plant is one that runs continuously, except for scheduled maintenance stops, he said.
"These infrastructure improvements are very important to our larger power users in the area," said Raymond Burns, president and CEO of the Rogers-Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce. "Shutting down a production line to conserve power can be very damaging to the bottom line." The air permit for the Tontitown site allows up to 480 megawatts and the company may build two more, additional 85-megawatt generators at the site in the future, he said. Right now, regulatory approval is for the two generators ready to go online this summer and two more at the end of the year.
Southwestern plans to build a 600-megawatt, coal-fired power plant in Hempstead County about 15 miles northeast of Texarkana that will also add power to the grid that includes Northwest Arkansas, Main said. "I hope there are no regulatory road blocks to that project; it will help our area" Burns said. That plant should be operational by the summer of 2011, according to a news release from American Electric Power. In August, Michael G. Morris, chairman of American Electric Power, said the Hempstead power plant was a part of $1.4 billion in new power generation planned for Southwestern Electric.