Ceremony

TECO Energy subsidiary TECO Power Services on Tuesday held a groundbreaking ceremony for its 599 MW independent power project in Dell, AR. The Dell power station is being constructed by NEPCO under a turnkey construction contract. Actual construction on the facility began in March. Like its sister station — McAdams power station in Kosciusko, MS — the Dell facility will be a natural gas-fired, combined-cycle plant. Both the Dell and McAdams projects are designed to interconnect with the Entergy transmission system and sell electricity to wholesale customers in the Southeast and Midwest, including the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky. The plant is expected to begin commercial operation during the second half of 2002.

The Portland Natural Gas Transmission System (PNGTS) andTransQuebec &amp Maritimes Pipeline (TQM) held a ribbon-cuttingceremony last week at the U.S./Canada border to announce completionof the first high-capacity gas pipeline to serve northern NewEngland. Commercial operations, however, are not expected to beginuntil Saturday, March 6. And PNGTS probably will not betransporting its full certificated capacity of 178,000 MMBtu/duntil the end of the year, said spokesman John Flumerfelt, becauseseveral of the power plants and paper mills to be served by thepipeline are not complete.

The Portland Natural Gas Transmission System (PNGTS) andTransQuebec & Maritimes Pipeline (TQM) held a ribbon-cuttingceremony yesterday at the U.S./Canada border to announce completionof the first high-capacity gas pipeline to serve northern NewEngland. Commercial operations, however, are not expected to beginuntil March 6. And PNGTS probably will not be transporting its fullcertificated capacity of 178,000 MMBtu/d until the end of the year,said spokesman John Flumerfelt, because several of the power plantsand paper mills to be served by the pipeline are not completed.