B&W Awarded Boiler Pressure Parts $40M Contract for South Dakota Coal-Fired Plant

The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) BWC announced today that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) has been awarded a contract worth more than $40 million to design, supply and install boiler pressure parts and an overfire air system, as well as perform boiler reinforcement, for the Big Stone power plant in South Dakota operated by Otter Tail Power Company. B&W PGG also will make improvements to the 450 megawatt coal-fired power plant's boiler to help it withstand the rigors of a new air quality control system. Enhancements to the plant's overfire air system are designed to help Big Stone achieve lower nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions while reducing the cost to operate the plant's selective catalytic reduction system (SCR).