The Halton Hills Generating Station will be a 683-MW combined-cycle plant, owned and operated by TransCanada Energy Ltd. The 80-acre site will include:
- Two natural gas-fired industrial gas turbines
- Two heat-recovery steam boilers
- One steam turbine
- Air-cooled condenser
- HV switchyard
- 1.3 km of u/g 230-kV transmission line
- Water treatment plant including water storage.
The new facility in Halton Hills area will have the capacity to generate enough power for approximately 600,000 homes. Construction started in late 2007 and the plant is schedule to come on-line in mid-2010.
Hatch is providing part of the detailed design and construction support service to Halton Hills Power Partners (HHPP), a joint venture of Burns & McDonnell and Aker Kvaerner Songer. HHPP is performing the project for TransCanada on an EPC basis.
Hatch's scope includes detailed engineering of civil and structural works, electrical works, and stress analysis of the piping as well as site development of the stormwater management system. This includes preparation of technical specifications for procurement of materials, equipment and services (pre-engineered buildings, piling works, transformers, switchgears and MCCs). In addition, Hatch is helping HHPP in carrying out studies, calculations and analyses such as critical piping stress analysis, power system and protection studies.
Hatch is also preparing general arrangement and detail drawings for foundations, structural steel, duct banks, grounding, wiring and single line diagrams. Most of the design work is performed in a 3D environment.
TransCanada’s 683-MW Halton Hills Generating Station (HHGS) will use state-of-the-art low emissions technology to meet high environmental standards and fulfill the Ontario Power Authority's request for additional clean power generation.
