Allegheny Energy praises Local L-154 as plant sets record

[LOCAL 154’s, (PITTSBURGH)] attention to safety and craftsmanship, your responsiveness to our needs, and your management of apprenticeship programs and welding teams has been invaluable to us. All of this effort has culminated in a record-setting year for Hatfield’s [the Hatfield Ferry Power Station in Masontown, Pa.] availability and production in 2008. We have enjoyed a more than 90 percent equivalent availability factor on all three units, which is well into top-quartile performance in our industry; and we have set a new station generation record of over 11.1 million megawatt hours while burning more than 4.7 million tons of coal.

2009 is shaping up to be another challenging year at Hatfield, with a major outage on Unit 1 and the scrubber tie-in outages. With your help, we will meet these challenges, we will continue to meet the challenges in our industry, and we will continue to provide a valuable service to our communities. Most importantly, we’ll do it in a safe manner.

Again, I thank you and your organization for your commitment to excellence at Hatfield’s Ferry, and I look forward to our continued business relationship.

GARY J. DINZEIO
Regional Director

ANTHONY J. CATANESE
Director, Generation Maintenance
Allegheny Energy Supply