17 November 2009-- American Electric Power (AEP) will buy steam turbines from Alstom Power for its DC Cook 1 nuclear power plant in Michigan and its Conesville 4 coal-fired generating unit in Ohio valued at $100 million.

At the Cook nuclear power plant, Alstom will provide three replacement low-pressure nuclear steam turbine rotors for unit 1. At the Conesville 4 unit, Alstom will provide a high-pressure rotor and parts and install the turbine. The retrofit will help offset power requirements of a new sulfur dioxide (SO₂) scrubber installed at the site.

AEP and Alstom also commissioned October 30 a 20 MW installation of Alstom's chilled ammonia process for carbon dioxide (CO₂) capture at AEP's 1,300 MW Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia. Mountaineer is one of the first integrated CO₂ capture and storage projects at a coal-fired power plant. The technology will remove an estimated 90 percent of CO₂ emissions from the flue gas stream.
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