BUSINESS MEMO: POWER PLANT DEDICATION

Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. and Duke Energy Corp. will dedicate the new St. Francis Power Plant near Glennonville on Sept. 29.

Roger B. Wilson, lieutenant governor of Missouri; O.B. Clark, AECI president; Jim Jura, AECI general manager and chief executive officer; and Jim Donnell, president of Duke Energy North America, will be on hand for the dedication.

Siemans Power Corp., the U.S. arm of Siemens Power Generation Group, was in charge of construction for the AECI-Duke Energy partnership project.

The facility will have a significant economic impact on the area through the property tax base. The power plant is highly automated and will require only a limited number of employees to operate. Employment is estimated at 20 to 25 people.

AECI, headquartered at Springfield, provides wholesale power to six regional and 51 local electric cooperative systems in Missouri, northeast Oklahoma and southeast Iowa that serves more than 750,000 homes and businesses.