BWCC wins $75 million APC contract for Indiana plant

   The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W; Charlotte, NC) announced today that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co., Inc. (BWCC) has received a contract from Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO) to install air pollution control (APC) equipment at the R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield, Indiana. Under the contract, which has an expected value of more than $75 million, BWCC will install two B&W-designed wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) absorber vessels and associated reagent slurry preparation and dewatering equipment for the plant’s 465 megawatt Unit 14 and its 515 megawatt Unit 15. BWCC also will procure and erect the absorber and dewatering island’s structural steel for the wet FGD systems. Start-up of Schahfer Unit 14 is scheduled for fall 2013 and Unit 15 for fall 2015.