Vernon Rowe provided valuable assistance during the 2006 Fall Outage at the Effingham County Plant. He helped prepare requests for quotes and arrange contractor meetings for the gas turbine combustion component replacement. Vernon also coordinated with Toshiba to obtain parts for the steam turbine and secured engineers for the outage. Additionally, he prepared purchase orders and expedited parts for heat recovery steam generator seals, safety appliances, and steam dump system valves. Due to Vernon's dedicated assistance, the outage work was completed five days ahead of schedule and within budget despite no advance planning.

1. January 20, 2008
To Whom It May Concern:
My last working experience with Vernon Rowe was during the 2006 Fall Outage
Season. I was working at the Effingham County Plant as the Outage Manager, where I
started in late June 2006. The Fall 2006 plant scheduled outage work scope included a
combustion component replacement on the Unit 2 gas turbine (General Electric 7FA+e),
major inspections and piping seal replacements on both heat recovery steam generators
(HRSG’s), inspection, repair, and testing of all HRSG and high energy piping safety
appliances, and potential inspection and repair of the steam turbine (Toshiba) combined
reheat stop intercept valves. No advance work scope planning, estimates, or quotations
had been prepared prior to my arrival at the Effingham County Plant.
Vernon assisted me with the preparation and distribution of RFQ’s for the gas turbine
combustion component replacement including a recommended list of qualified
contractors. In addition, Vernon made the arrangements for the combustion component
replacement qualified contractor pre-bid work scope/project review meeting. He
participated in the contractor pre-bid meeting and assisted me with the contractor
technical evaluation.
In addition to Vernon’s assistance with the gas turbine combustion component
replacement, he also provided all coordination with Toshiba in securing the steam turbine
combined reheat stop intercept valve parts (quotations, PO’s, and expediting) and
securing Toshiba Service Engineers for the outage. Vernon also prepared and issued the
PO’s and expedited the parts for the HRSG seals, safety appliances, and steam dump
system control valves.
The Fall 2006 Effingham County Plant Scheduled Outage required seventeen (17)
individual contractors to complete the planned and emergent work scope.
The outage work scope was completed five (5) days ahead of schedule and within the
estimated budget. These positive outage accomplishments could not have been completed
without the dedicated assistance from Vernon Rowe.
Thank you,
Scott Trantham, P.E.
Retired Progress Energy Employee