BusinessMay 18, 1998
BUSINESS MEMO: POWER PLANT SHUTDOWN
AmerenUE -- formerly known as Union Electric -- is shutting down its Taum Sauk power plant for about a year to install new equipment and modernize the plant. Work is expected to start on the plant near Lesterville in late August, with a completion date of June 1999...
AmerenUE -- formerly known as Union Electric -- is shutting down its Taum Sauk power plant for about a year to install new equipment and modernize the plant.
Work is expected to start on the plant near Lesterville in late August, with a completion date of June 1999.
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The Taum Sauk plant is a "pumped storage" hydroelectric plant that stores water in a large reservoir built atop nearby Proffitt Mountain.
The upgrade will include installing new runners to turn the pump-turbines. The runners measure 23 feet in diameter, stands 10 feet tall and weighs 200,000 pounds.
The runners will be transported by truck from their fabrication plant in York, Pa., to the Taum Sauk plant.
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