Plan of Day meeting at Dry Fork Station

Here's an inside look at the Plan of Day meeting held at Dry Fork Station every morning at 7:00 a.m.

24 hours a day, seven days a week, the control room at the Dry Fork Station is humming, even though the plant isn't running yet. But every morning, about 7 a.m., about 30 leaders from across the plant site, including the contractors, get together around a table at the back of the room to make sure everything is getting done.

"Nooter Erickson. Who's speaking for Nooter today?"

This is the Plan of Day meeting at Dry Fork Station, and Rich Goshorn of Sargent and Lundy is in charge.

"What's the probability of finishing the end of the day tomorrow?"

They're talking about what happened yesterday that went well and went badly... and what needs to happen today.

"What's this on again?" "Condenser vacuum." "It was on the..." "How can you not have that going to..." "We've got five transmitters out there. They're all for protection. This one is for control. Somehow it got deleted, I think." "Okay. Anything else?" "Nope. That one we gotta jump on, though."

(Rich Goshorn/S&L site manager): "I explain it to people that, we're into commissioning and we're this close to the end, we're down in a funnel. And so there's only so many things that can be going on at a time, where we don't conflict with one another."

Goshorn says these plan of day meetings help keep the project on track. They've been on the schedule since the end of last summer.

"There was a little confusion this morning. Your NDT guy, or whoever's in lead, said they plan to come back in tonight for NDT. I wanna make sure they do it tomorrow night also." "After the fan runs. That's what it's always been, after the fan runs." "Okay."

(Rich Goshorn/S&L site manager): "Make sure they know, they're aware of there's a sense of urgency to move forward and get things done. And wherever possible, I'll periodically ask the guy, 'You're supposed to be done this Thursday, are you gonna finish for sure?' Kind of put him on the spot a little bit, so he knows he's under the gun."

Dry Fork Station plant manager Tom Stalcup says the meetings help keep everyone safe, too. Today, there is more than 400 workers on site.

(Tom Stalcup/DFS plant manager): "We can communicate, 'Here's what's going on as you're in those areas, this might be the first time we're doing it, you might be watching what's going on."

And Stalcup says every piece of equipment is started by a Basin Electric employee, with contractors and commissioning workers standing by... because soon, this control room will be run only by Basin Electric.

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