Fluor Daniel, Primary Energy Team Up for $90-Million Project

IRVINE — A Fluor Daniel unit and a subsidiary of utility Nipsco Industries Inc. said they’ll build a $90-million co-generation energy plant at Inland Steel Industries Inc.’s Indiana Harbor facility and pursue other projects together.

Fluor Daniel, a unit of Fluor Corp., will design and construct the plant under contract to Primary Energy, a Nipsco unit. The 95-megawatt plant will use waste heat from a new coke-producing facility that Inland will build at the site in East Chicago, Ind. The plant will generate electric and steam power for Inland Steel.

Fluor Daniel and Primary Energy said they’ll pursue contracts to build similar plants at refineries, food-processing plants, and pulp and paper mills.