Gas pipelines planned to fuel Texas power plant

Oct. 3, 2001
Units of TXU Corp., Dallas, and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, Houston, plan to build natural gas pipelines to fuel the 1,789-Mw power plant being built in Forney, Tex., by FPL Energy LLC, a unit of FPL Group Inc., Juno Beach, Fla.

By the OGJ Online Staff

HOUSTON, Oct. 3 -- Units of TXU Corp., Dallas, and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, Houston, plan to build natural gas pipelines to fuel the 1,789-Mw power plant being built in Forney, Tex., by FPL Energy LLC, a unit of FPL Group Inc., Juno Beach, Fla.

Kinder Morgan North Texas Pipeline LLC plans to lay a pipeline from an interconnect in Lamar County to FPL's 1,000-Mw plant in Paris, Tex., and the Forney plant, FPL officials said Tuesday.

Construction of the 85-mile, 30-in. pipeline will begin next summer, officials said. Startup of the Forney plant is scheduled in mid-2003.

Kinder Morgan officials said the 325 billion btu/day pipeline will cost $70 million.

TXU Lone Star Pipeline will build a 2-mile, 24-in. pipeline from its gas transmission system in eastern Dallas County, Tex., to the Forney plant beginning in spring 2002. The expected cost of that line was not provided.

FPL Energy owns and operates power plants with more than 4,400 Mw (net) in 12 states. Officials said new projects will add nearly 6,000 Mw of capacity by the end of 2003.

The FPL Group's principal subsidiary is Florida Power & Light Co., which serves more than 7 million people in Florida.