The project is expected to generate revenues of approximately $20m to Primoris over an 11-month period beginning in December 2009 and ending in October 2010.
The RERC, which is located on a 16-acre site adjacent to the city’s Water Quality Control Plant within the City of Riverside, runs at a current capacity of 96MW, and currently consists of two 48MW SCCTs and generators.
The natural gas-fired turbines run no more than 1,200 hours a year and only during times of peak demand when additional energy is needed. As part of the project, officially named RERC units 3 & 4, Primoris will install two GE LM-6000 combustion turbine generators with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emissions control technology that will increase the RERC’s capacity by a nominal 100MW.
Primoris’s construction of the new power plant is expected to increase the RERC’s ability to provide energy to public utilities customers during peak demand hours.
As revealed on November 12, 2009, Primoris expects to add more than $140m of backlog in the next several weeks, across virtually all of its business lines. Revenues from this project represent a portion of that anticipated new backlog.
Primoris provides construction, fabrication, maintenance and replacement services, as well as engineering services to public utilities, petrochemical companies, energy companies, municipalities and other customers.
