RS Cogen LLC targets August 2002 completion Of 425MW Louisiana cogen project, in an advisory by Industrialinfo.com

The following is an Advisory by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Inc; Houston, Texas). Construction is well underway on RS Cogen LLC's 425 mega-watt (MW) cogeneration unit adjacent to PPG's Lake Charles, Louisiana chemical complex. The new power facility has an anticipated completion date of August 2002 and the total project cost is estimated at $240 million. RS Cogen LLC will own the plant and PPG will operate it.

RS Cogen LLC is a 50/50 joint venture formed between PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) (Pittsburgh, PA) and Entergy Wholesale Operations (The Woodlands, Texas), the unregulated power development division of Entergy Corporation (NYSE:ETR) (New Orleans, LA).

Construction on the unit began in September 2000, with BVZ Power Partners-Riverside, a Texas joint venture between Black & Veatch (Kansas City, Missouri) and H.B. Zachary (San Antonio, Texas), handling engineering, procurement, and construction. The natural gas-fired, combined cycle power plant will have two Siemens-Westinghouse 501F gas turbines, which provide higher kilowatt output and lower environmental emissions than conventional systems. Nooter Eriksen heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) and one Alstom Power steam turbine generator will also be installed, along with a new in-plant substation. Foxboro/Invensys will be supplying the I/A Series control, data acquisition system and intelligent field instrumentation.

PPG is expected to use 50% of the unit's electricity with the remainder being sold to the wholesale power market. The plant will also produce 250,000 pounds per hour of process steam for use at PPG, and another 525,000 pounds per hour of process steam is to be purchased by Lyondell Chemical Company (NYSE:LYO) (Houston, Texas).

PPG Industries was founded in 1883 and operates about 120 coating material manufacturing and research & development facilities worldwide. Sales in 2000 were $8.6 billion.

Entergy Wholesale Operations (EWO) has development and marketing offices in London, Madrid, Milan and Sofia, Bulgaria. EWO has approximately 10,000 megawatts of net capacity in operation, development or under construction in North America and Western Europe.

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