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Oak Creek Power Plant Expansion
Project Information
- Project Location:
- Oak Creek, WI
- Status:
- Completed
- Structure Type:
- Power Generation & Distribution
Scope Of Work
One of the world’s cleanest and most efficient coal-fired power systems
Our expansion of the Oak Creek Power Plant (at one time known as Elm Road Generating Station) was the largest private construction job in Wisconsin history.
Built by Bechtel for Wisconsin Energy, the plant, with two 615-megawatt coal-fired steam-turbine generating units and related civil works, sits next to an earlier-built Oak Creek power plant on the western shore of Lake Michigan.
The Oak Creek expansion features an innovative cooling system and is among the most efficient coal-fired power systems in the world.
Project reaches new heights
Oak Creek’s 'boiler' buildings are 270 feet (82 meters) tall. A common chimney serving both units rises even higher, to 550 feet (168 meters).
Numbers like that mean a lot of material to manage.
During the project, crews:
Placed nearly 3 million cubic feet (84,000 cubic meters) of concrete
Erected 31,000 tons of structural steel
Installed 230,000 feet (more than 70,000 meters) of large-bore pipe,
Laid nearly 7 million feet (2.1 million meters) of electrical cable
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