Dominion’s power station near Front Royal 50 percent built

Dominion Virginia Power reports that its power station, under construction in Warren County near Front Royal, has reached a major milestone.  Seventeen months after starting construction, the station is 50 percent complete and on track to be online by the 4th quarter of 2014.

d Bob McKinley, vice president of Generation Construction, was quoted in a news realease as saying, “It is starting to take shape. We are in the final stages of major equipment installation and our work is transitioning to interconnecting the equipment with piping, cable, instrumentation and so on.”

In addition to reaching the halfway mark, the station also peaked for the number of employees on site at 1,400. The workforce will start to go down over the next few months, Dominion said,

Once complete, the 1,329-megawatt, combined-cycle power station will employ about 40 workers and produce enough electricity to serve more than 330,000 customers, according to the news release. The station will help Dominion meet the growing energy needs in Northern Virginia and throughout the state.

Warren County Energy Partners, a partnership of Burns & McDonnell and Zachry Construction, is building the station for Dominion.

Dominion (NYSE:D) is one of the nation’s largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of approximately 23,500 megawatts of generation, 11,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline and 6,400 miles of electric transmission lines.  The company serves retail energy customers in 15 states. For more information go to http://www.dom.com  .