Chevron, Keenan building power plant

FREDERICK, Md., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Chevron Corp. and Keenan Development will build a $100 million central utility plant for Maryland's National Interagency Biodefense Campus.

That campus is under construction at the United States Army's Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., Chevron said Monday.

The plant will be the first energy project established through the Department of Defense's enhanced-use leasing authority, which allows private companies to develop non-excess military property for mission enhancing and marketable long-term uses.

Keenan Development is leasing the project land from Fort Detrick and will own the plant. Chevron Energy Solutions is designing and building the plant and will operate it. Completion is set for 2008.