US engineering group Bechtel is to design and build some 7,000 MW of generation capacity in Texas, part of the massive plan announced by TXU Corp.
Dallas-based TXU, which announced plans to invest some $10 billion building up to 11 units at nine sites, will use Bechtel as the primary contractor on up to nine of the units. Most of the units are expected to have a capacity of 800 MW.
The company will begin immediately to provide permitting support, preliminary engineering, procurement of major equipment, and construction planning, with construction set to start next year.