August 15, 2008

Wisconsin Public Service Corp.’s Weston 4 earns POWER’s highest honor

Dr. Robert Peltier, PE

Waste not

WPSC set a goal of recycling 65% or more of all construction waste. By the end of construction more than 80% of waste was recycled, diverting more than 17 million pounds of waste from landfills. The recycling project also paid its own way with income or avoided costs totaling over $670,000 through May 2008.

Beyond the numbers

Weston 4 is much more than the sum of its parts, and there are plenty of parts. More than 280,000 feet of pipe was installed, 2.3 million feet of cable were pulled, 23,000 boiler pressure welds completed, and more than 73,000 yards of concrete were placed during construction.

The measure of a plant goes beyond how well these parts interact to how the plant serves its customers with reliable and reasonably priced electricity. We view Weston 4 as one of the power industry’s greatest success stories. Congratulations to the Weston 4 project team and operating staff who made this project an award-winning one.