No, not MG&E . . . it’s the state heat and power plant . . .
The Wisconsin Department of Administration is switching its Capitol Heat and Power Plant (600 block of E. Washington Avenue) from coal to natural gas and ultra-low sulfur distillate oil. An Environmental Impact Statement is being prepared, and as part of that process, a scoping meeting has been scheduled:
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
6:00 p.m.
Department of Administration Building
101 E. Wilson Street
La Croix Room, First Floor
The details, for those of you who follow these kinds of things:
Changes to the plant will include the installation of four new gas and oil burners to replace two existing coal/gas burners and two gas/oil burners and the installation of 3,000 tons of electric chilled water capacity. The existing steam driven centrifugal chiller and two of the exiting absorption chillers will be demolished. The project will construct a chilled water storage tower and install a new CHPP boiler/chiller digital control system. The existing 1.5 MW steam turbine generators will be evaluated for future potential use along with the emergency generator. Ancillary equipment necessary to run the plant will be included, such as water treatment equipment, feed water pumps, compressed air, and condensate collection.
