Natural Gas Generation
Natural gas is a foundational fuel for conventional generation in the North American market. It’s instrumental to maintaining reliability in the face of modern power demand. The affordability of natural gas makes it a primary choice for new fossil generation — for today and tomorrow.
Driven by factors including coal plant retirements, data center and manufacturing facility demand, renewable load following and government programs, the demand for power generation continues to grow. The flexibility and dispatchability of natural gas makes it a critical part of the resource mix as renewable generation grows and grid-scale storage capacity ramps up.
Why Project Delivery Is More Important Than Ever for Success
A successful project is one that aligns with your specific goals. That is why we tailor our execution approach to fit your unique needs, whether driven by budget, schedule or risk profile. From full-service engineer-procure-construct (EPC) to owner’s engineering and consulting roles, our focus is on providing the right project delivery model for you. Our self-perform construction capabilities, available through our open-shop construction arm or our union subsidiary, AZCO, give us flexibility to control the critical path to construction. Our multidisciplinary in-house professionals also can provide packaged solutions that incorporate permitting, buildings, interconnections and more.
Regardless of scale, we can guide your gas and heavy industrial power initiative through regulatory uncertainty, emerging technology integration — including carbon capture and hydrogen — and supply chain challenges. As the recurring top-ranked firm in power according to Engineering News-Record, we bring decades of experience in gas turbine generation to your projects. We have more than 1,200 professionals who work on gas generation projects, from 3-D modeling to design to integrated engineer-procure-construct (EPC) project delivery. We have worked in extremely challenging EPC environments, finding solutions that meet your budget, schedule and space limitations.
Our AZCO subsidiary also brings extensive pipe fabrication and truckable module capabilities, managing long-lead construction items. Our shops can complete pipe fabrication in a range of materials, including carbon steel, stainless steel and alloys. Our skilled craft can assemble the completed components in the shop, gaining efficiencies in the field. We have the capacity to deliver up to 600 spools per week, with just-in-time scheduling to improve safety and control costs at the project site.
How We Deliver New Generation and Repowering
As expectations for increased power reliability grow in response to weather events, renewable generation gaps and growing demand, gas generation can fill the gaps. Our team has extensive experience with new generation simple- and combined-cycle plants as well as repowering coal plants with gas. Since 2000, we have been involved in gas turbine projects with an aggregate capacity of over 63,000 MW.
Our vast experience ranges from aeroderivatives to the largest J-class and advanced-class combustion turbines to reciprocating engines. Many of our recent generation facilities have integrated optimized solutions such as air-cooled condensing, inlet chillers, zero liquid discharge (ZLD) and low-noise design.
Advanced-Class Combustion Turbines
The challenges intrinsic to advanced-class turbines are unique. Our project experience has equipped us to conquer these challenges. We have worked with advanced-class models from development through construction, executing procurement, engineering, construction and startup tasks for simple-cycle turbines with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) for NOx control.
The success of complex advanced-class gas turbine projects rides on the people who perform the work. Our team applies experience with and understanding of the technology to deliver a seamlessly operating unit.
Related Systems and Services
As renewable power gains presence on the grid, we can work with you to implement synchronous condenser (syncon) systems on new or existing gas plants, including associated transmission system reinforcement studies, reactive margin studies and short circuit studies.
