This 942-megawatt peaking plant is located on a 100-acre tract of land approximately 35 miles west of Chicago. Commercial operation began June 2001. The facility includes 10 simple-cycle, natural gas-fired peaking units; four 165-megawatt combustion turbines with evaporative cooling and six 47-megawatt combustion turbines equipped with inlet chillers. The Aurora units operate during periods of extreme demand for electrical power, such as hot summer or very cold winter days.
Blossburg Generating Station Blossburg, Pennyslvania
The Blossburg plant consists of one simple-cycle natural gas turbine with a capacity rating of 23 megawatts. This facility is located on a 2.85-acre site in Blossburg, Pennsylvania. A peaking facility, Blossburg provides electricity to the PJM Interconnection during times of peak electricity usage. The unit entered commercial operation in 1971.
BrunotIsland Generating Station
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Brunot Island site consists of three, oil-fired, simple cycle peaking units that have a total generating capacity of 53 megawatts and a natural gas fired combined cycle plant that has a total capacity of 262 megawatts. The facility is located on a 129-acre island on the Ohio River, approximately two miles down river from downtown Pittsburgh and began operation in 1972. The installation of selective catalytic conversion equipment in 2002 has reduced nitrogen oxide air emissions.
ConemaughGenerating Station
New Florence, Pennsylvania
Conemaugh is a scrubbed, coal-fired electric generating station featuring two pulverized coal, supercritical boilers that total 1,700 megawatts and four diesel units with a total generating capacity of 12 megawatts. The facility is located in Indiana County near New Florence, Pennsylvania. It is jointly owned by a group of eight co-owners. We have a 16 percent interest in Conemaugh and operate the facility for the owners group.
Since the units were commissioned in the spring of 1970 and 1971, a number of emission control upgrades have been made. These include a balanced draft conversion, modifications to the electrostatic precipitators, conversion to a digital control system, installation of low nitrogen oxide burners to reduce NOx emissions and the installation of a wet flue gas desulphurization scrubber in the fall of 1994 and 1995 to reduce sulfur dioxide and mercury emissions.
CheswickGenerating Station
Springdale, Pennsylvania
Cheswick is a single-unit, coal-fired generation station located on an 82-acre site in the borough of Springdale, approximately 18 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. Cheswick, which began commercial operation in 1970, operates as a baseload facility and has a net demonstrated capacity of 580 megawatts.
Since the plants initial commissioning, additional environmental control systems have been installed to comply with more stringent emission requirements. Emissions controls include an electrostatic precipitator and flue gas conditioning systems to remove particulate matter, and a low-NOx burner system to reduce oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions.
Elrama is a fully scrubbed, four-unit, pulverized coal-fired generating station located on a 44-acre site along the Monongahela River, 25 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. Elrama operates as a baseload facility and has a net demonstrated capacity of 465 megawatts. Units 1,2 and 3 were commissioned in the early 1950’s, while Unit 4, the largest unit at the facility at 175 net megawatts, began commercial operation in 1960. The flue gas desulfurization (scrubber) system, one of the first full system retrofits of its kind, was installed in the mid-1970’s and removes over 80 percent of the sulfur dioxide (SO2) produced during the combustion process.
The Gilbert Site is located in Holland Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, which is just north of the town of Milford. The site includes a 336-megawatt 4 by 1 combined-cycle plant that began operation in 1974, four simple-cycle combustion turbines totaling 111-megawatts that began operation in 1970, and one 167-megawatt simple-cycle CT that began operation in 1996. All units have dual fuel capability and can burn either natural gas or oil. It has the option of operating the four combined-cycle CTs in simple cycle, if needed.
GlenGardner Generating Station
Glen Gardner, New Jersey
This 184-megawatt facility located in Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey consists of eight simple cycle CT’s that began operation in 1971. All units have dual fuel capability and can burn either natural gas or oil.
HamiltonGenerating Station
East Berlin, Pennsylvania
This facility consists of one oil-fired combustion turbine with a capacity rating of 23 megawatts. This peaking unit is located on a 40-acre site in Hamilton Township, Pennsylvania. The unit entered commercial operation in 1971.
HunterstownGenerating Station
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Hunterstown plant is natural-gas fired, combined-cycle power plant with capacity rating of 839-megawatts. It is located on 89 acres in a brownfield industrial site in Straban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania. The facility includes three state-of-the-art combustion turbines and three heat recovery steam generators with selective catalytic reduction. The plant utilizes a dry-cooled condenser to minimize groundwater usage from on-site wells. The facility began commercial operation in 2003, providing electric power to PJM Interconnection.
Also located at the site are three dual-fuel simple cycle combustion turbines with a capacity rating of 71-megawatts total. The Hunterstown simple cycle site entered commercial operation in 1971.
Keystone is a coal-fired electric generating station featuring two pulverized coal, supercritical boilers (1,700 MW) and four diesel units (12 MW) with total generating capacity of 1,712 megawatts. The facility is located on a 1,459-acre site in Indiana and Armstrong counties near Shelocta, Pennsylvania. It is jointly owned by a group of seven co-owners. We have a 16 percent interest in Keystone and operate the facility for the owners group.
Since the two units were originally commissioned in the summers of 1967 and 1968, a number of emission control systems have either been upgraded or installed. These include modifications to the electrostatic precipitators, the addition of a flue-gas conditioning system to improve precipitator performance, a low-nitrogen oxide burner system to reduce NOx emissions and installation of a selective catalytic reduction system to further reduce NOx emissions.
MountainGenerating Station
Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania
The Mountain site consists of two dual-fuel combustion turbines with a combined capacity of 47 megawatts. These peaking units are located on an 88.4-acre site in South Middleton, Pennsylvania. The units entered commercial operation in 1972.
The Orrtanna site consists of one oil-fired combustion turbine with a capacity rating of 23 megawatts, located on a 9.9-acre site in Highland Township, Pennsylvania. This peaking unit entered commercial operation in 1971.
PortlandGenerating Station
Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania
Portland Station is located on a 1,094-acre site along the west bank of the Delaware River in Northampton County, 10 miles southeast of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The facility is comprised of two coal-fired generating units, vintage 1958 and 1962 respectively, with a capacity of 400 megawatts and three dual-fueled combustion turbines with a total generating capacity of 185 megawatts.
The three combustion turbines started commercial operation in 1967, 1971 and 1997. Unit 5 is the newest of these combustion turbines and features water injection low nitrogen oxide (NOx) design.
In the late 1980s, new electrostatic precipitators were installed at Portland for improved control of particulate matter
SayrevilleGenerating Station
Sayreville, New Jersey
This site consists of four dual-fuel simple-cycle combustion turbines totaling 264 megawatts that began operation in 1972.
Also on the site is a retired steam plant consisting of five units, three of which were retired in 1994. The remaining two 125-megawatt steam units were retired in February, 2004.
SewardGenerating Station
New Florence, Pennsylvania
The 521-megawatt Seward plant, located 80 miles east of Pittsburgh near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is the largest waste coal-fired generating plant in the world and the only merchant plant of its kind in the U.S. The plant was named the 2004 Plant of the Year by Platt’s POWER magazine. In addition, Seward Station received The Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence.
Seward was constructed on the site of an 82-year-old, coal-fired power plant that was retired at the end of 2003. The new facility, which began commercial operation in late 2004, produces two and one-half times as much electricity as the plant it replaces, while significantly lowering emissions rates.
ShawneeGenerating Station
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The Shawnee Site consists of one oil-fired combustion turbine with a generating capacity of 23 megawatts that began commercial operation in 1972. This peaking unit is located on an 82.9-acre site in Middle Smithfield, Pennsylvania.
ShawvilleGenerating Station
Shawville, Pennsylvania
The Shawville Station is located on a 947-acre site along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, 10 miles northeast of Clearfield, Pennsylvania. The plant’s four coal-fired steam units (566 MW) and three diesel units (6 MW) have a total generating capacity of 572 megawatts. Of the coal units, units 1 and 2 began commercial operation in 1954, while Units 3 and 4 started in 1959 and 1960, respectively. From 1993 to 1995, low NOx burners, environmental equipment designed to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide, were installed on all four units at Shawville. In addition, the station uses electrostatic precipitators to control particulate emissions. Units 1-4 are base load units with regulation capability. Diesel units 5 through 7 are peaking units and provide black start capability.
Titus Station is located on a 33-acre site (with adjacent property of more than 200 acres) along the Schuylkill River in Berks County, two miles south of Reading, Pennsylvania. The facility has a total generating capacity of 281 megawatts and consists of three coal-fired generating units (246 MW) and two combustion turbines (35 MW), which can burn either natural gas or fuel oil to produce electricity. There is also a coal blending facility on site.
TolnaGenerating Station
Stewartstown, Pennsylvania
The Tolna Site consists of two oil-fired combustion turbines with a combined capacity rating of 47 megawatts. These peaking units are located on a 132.1-acre site in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania. The Tolna Site entered commercial operation in 1972.
The combustion turbine at the Warren facility was mothballed in the spring of 2004. The unit has a capacity rating of 68 megawatts, has dual-fuel capability, and entered commercial operation in 1972. Two coal-fired generating units that were originally commissioned in the late 1940s are also located on the site. These units, which had a total capacity rating of 82 megawatts, were retired in the fall of 2002.
The 252-megawatt Werner plant is located in South Amboy, New Jersey, and contains four oil fired simple cycle combustion turbines that began operation in the 1972. Also on the site is a steam plant consisting of three retired units; two units were retired in 1976.
The Coolwater Generating Station is a natural gas fired station comprised of 4 units. Units 1 and 2 are conventional steam turbine/boiler units with a total capacity of 146 megawatts and are of 1961 and 1964 vintages, respectively. Constructed in 1978, both Units 3 and 4 are combined cycle gas turbine units with a total capacity of 462 megawatts. These units are comprised of two gas turbines with heat-recovery steam generators and a steam turbine. Each of units 3 and 4 can be run in several different modes; a quick start, simple cycle mode or a highly efficient combined-cycle base-load operation.
Since acquiring the plant in 1998, we have implemented facility improvements to reduce air emissions and water usage, and improve its overall operating efficiency.
The Ellwood natural gas-fired power plant has a generating capacity of 54 megawatts of electricity and began commercial operation in 1974. Remotely operated and managed from our Mandalay Generating Station in Oxnard, the Ellwood Station was designed, constructed and strategically located to help meet the need for electricity during times of peak demand. The single unit facility utilizes a water injection system to reduce emissions.
EtiwandaGenerating Station
Rancho Cucamonga, California
The Etiwanda Generating Station is a natural gas-fired facility that features two steam-turbine generation units that began commercial operation in 1963. The Units 3 & 4 boilers are gas-fired steam generators. Also included at the site are two steam generators that were retired in late 2003 and a combustion turbine that was retired in early 2004.
The Etiwanda station is capable of producing 640 megawatts of electricity. To control gas emissions Units 3 & 4 have Selective Catalystic Reduction devices, Gas Recirculation Fans and “Burner NOx Configuration Control.” Up to 900,000,000 gallons of recycled water is used annually for cooling water.
The Mandalay Station features three generating units: two steam-powered units that were commissioned in 1959 and one jet engine-powered unit that was commissioned in 1970. Fueled by natural gas, the plant can contribute up to 560 megawatts of electricity. The state-of-the-art facility is among the first in the world to use selective catalytic reduction technology to minimize emissions.
Ormond Beach is located along the California coast in the City of Oxnard, approximately 60 miles north of Los Angeles. The Station consists of two power generating units, with a combined generating capacity of 1,516 megawatts. Unit 1 began commercial operation in August 1971, and Unit 2 in March 1973.
The steam generators for each unit use natural gas. Both units are equipped with NOx reduction equipment.
Avon Lake is a three-unit generating station situated on 107 acres along the southern shores of Lake Erie, approximately 20 miles west of downtown Cleveland. Its three units have a net capacity of 745 megawatts.
Unit 9 is the largest of the three units, capable of generating 625 megawatts. It began commercial operation in 1970 and provides both base load capacity and load following capability. The unit burns eastern bituminous coals and is also capable of burning a PRB blend.
Unit 7 is a 96 megawatt unit that is also utilized for base load capacity and load following capability. It began commercial operation in 1949 and burns primarily eastern bituminous coals. Unit 10 is a 24-megawatt combustion turbine, which began commercial operation in 1971. It provides both peaking capacity and black start capability and burns fuel oil.
NewCastle Generating Station
West Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
New Castle is a 333 MW predominantly coal-fired, baseload generating station located on a 270-acre site four miles south of New Castle in Taylor Township, West Pittsburg, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. Units 3, 4 and 5 began commercial operations in 1952, 1958, and 1964, respectively. The Plant also has two black start capable diesel generators that were installed in 1972.
The Niles facility includes two baseload, coal-fired units and a combustion turbine with peaking and black start capability. The facility is located within Trumbull County in Niles, Ohio, about 15 miles northwest of Youngstown, on a 100-acre site along the Mahoning River. The two coal-fired units began commercial operation in 1954 and have a net capacity of 208-megawatts. The oil-fired combustion turbine has a net capacity of 28-megawatts.
ShelbyCounty Generating Station
Shelby County, Illinois
This 356-megawatt natural gas peaking facility began commercial operation during the summer of 2000. Located on an 80-acre parcel of land about 20 miles southeast of Shelbyville, Illinois, near the town of Neoga, this plant consists of eight 45-megawatt natural gas turbines with inlet chillers. This station is designed to produce power during periods of heavy electricity usage and is designed for summer operation only.
SOUTHEAST Choctaw Generating Station
French Camp, Mississippi
This 825-megawatt, combined-cycle plant in Choctaw County, Mississippi, was commissioned in July 2003. The facility is a highly efficient, natural gas-fired, combined-cycle generating unit that uses an air-cooled condenser.
IndianRiver Generating Station
Titusville, Florida
The Indian River Generating Station consists of three conventional steam-generating units fueled by both oil and natural gas. With a 587-megawatt capacity, the Indian River Station is located near Titusville, Florida, and was placed into service in 1964.
This 470-megawatt, power plant is located on a 480-acre parcel of land in Osceola County, Florida, near the town of Holopaw, which is 20 miles southeast of Orlando. Strategically located near existing electric transmission lines and an underground natural gas pipeline, the plant is a peaking unit consisting of three simple-cycle gas turbines that were commissioned in 2001 and 2002. Primarily fueled by natural gas, the plant is also able to produce electricity from distillate fuel oil.
Jointly owned by Reliant and our partner, the $66 million, 100-megawatt gas-fired combined cycle Sabine Cogeneration Plant provides power and steam for LanXess’ synthetic rubber manufacturing facility. The facility went online in November 1999.
