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ROBERTSON COUNTY, TX -Fluor Corp. has received the go-ahead tobuild a 1,600-megawatt, two-unit power plant on a 350-acre site inCentral Texas. Construction will begin within 10 days on the$1.8-billion Oak Grove project, which will have the bones of apartially-finished power plant as its foundation.
The site is located off FM 979 near Franklin, about 60 milessoutheast of Waco. A Fluor spokesman says the plan is to add towhat's already there rather than start from scratch. "Thefoundation and some of the utilities are already in there from theolder power plant that was never completed," he tells GlobeSt.com."It's not like a green field where we'll need to turn some shovels.Plus a lot of the engineering and design work have been in progressfor awhile from our end."
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