Tenaska power plant powers up in Westmoreland
Photo courtesy of Tenaska
Tenaska’s natural gas-fueled power plant has been operating for nearly two weeks in South Huntingdon Township, outside Smithton.
Dr. Kiser
Frankovitch
Four days before Christmas, a new natural gas-fueled power plant began stirring. And more.
Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station became operational Dec. 21. Construction of the facility – in South Huntingdon Township, off Interstate 70 near Smithton – took a little more than two years.
The 940-megawatt plant, in southwestern Westmoreland County, is capable of generating electricity to about 940,000 homes in 13 eastern states, plus the District of Columbia. It is tied into PJM Interconnection, a regional grid.
Tenaska Pennsylvania Partners LLC owns the new plant, which is made up of affiliates of Tenaska, Diamond Generating Corporation and J-POWER USA Investment Co. Ltd. Tenaska is an energy company based in Omaha, Neb.
Jerry Crouse, chief operating officer and vice chairman of Tenaska, said in a statement: “Tenaska Westmoreland is a highly efficient generating facility that is well suited to meet the needs of the PJM market. We … look forward to Tenaska Westmoreland being a reliable power producer for decades.”
Tenaska Westmoreland is the 17th power project the company has brought online. That fleet includes 11 natural gas-fueled and renewable power plants that, combined, are cable of generating about 8,000 megawatts.
The company said three-fourths of the 24 employees in South Huntingdon reside in Westmoreland or adjacent counties. About 650 were employed during the height of construction.
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Kiser was previously chief of cardiac surgery at East Carolina Heart Institute, which is affiliated with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Before that, Kiser was chief of cardiac surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He is internationally recognized for his expertise in minimally invasive valve and coronary artery surgery, and for pioneering paracardioscopic procedures to treat atrial fibrillation, or Afib.
Southpointe partner
Attorney W. Taylor Frankovitch rang in the new year triumphantly, by being elected a partner with Bowles Rice LLP.
Frankovitch, who works at the firm’s Southpointe office, specializes in energy, commercial law, real estate and litigation.
Bowles Rice, headquartered in Charleston, W.Va., elected 11 new equity and non-equity partners effective Jan. 1. They were approved at the firm’s annual partners meeting on Dec. 14.