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Atikokan
Location: ON
Operator: Ontario Power Generation
Configuration: 1 X 230 MW
Operation: 1985
Fuel: lignite
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: BBC
Photograph courtesy of Ontario Power
Generation
Posted 23 Jun 2004 |
Belledune
Location: NB
Operator: NB Power
Configuration: 1 X 450 MW
Operation: 1993
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: CE
T/G supplier: Toshiba
Photograph courtesy of NB Power
Posted 27 Oct 2004 |
Boundary Dam
Location: SK
Operator: SaskPower
Configuration: 2 X 66 MW, 3 X 150 MW, 1 X 292 MW
Operation: 1959-1978
Fuel: lignite
Boiler supplier: B&W, CE
T/G supplier: Parsons, GE, Hitachi
Photograph courtesy of SaskPower
Posted 8 Sep 2004 |
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Brandon
Location: MB
Operator: Manitoba Hydro
Configuration: 4 X 33 MW, 1 X 105 MW
Operation: 1958-1969
Fuel: subbituminous coal, natural gas
Boiler supplier: CE, B&W
T/G supplier: MV, BBC
Quick facts: This was Manitoba Hydro's first thermal power plant and was
designed to burn lignite from Saskatchewan. Three of
the 33-MW units were retired in 1996 while the fourth operates as a
synchronous condenser. The plant now uses subbituminous coal from the Powder River Basin plus natural gas. Two 120-MW
Alstom gas turbines were added in 2002.
Photograph by Brian Simmons and courtesy of Manitoba Hydro
Posted 31 Mar 2001 |
Genesee
Location: AB
Operator: EPCOR Generation Inc
Configuration: 2 X 406 MW, 1 X 450 MW
Operation: 1989-2005
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Boiler supplier: CE, B-H
T/G supplier: GEC, Hitachi
Quick facts: The station has a cooling pond with makeup from the
North Saskatchewan River. Genesee-3, Canada's first supercritical
generating unit, was completed in Feb 2005.
Photograph courtesy of EPCOR
Posted 7 Mar 2005
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Grand Lake-4
Location: NB
Operator: NB Power
Configuration: 1 X 60 MW
Operation: 1964
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: Parsons
Quick facts: Grand Lake 1-3 were retired in 1993.
Photograph courtesy of NB Power
Posted 27 Oct 2004 |
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Lakeview
Location: ON
Operator: Ontario Power Generation
Configuration: 8 X 300 MW
Operation: 1962-1969 (ret 2005)
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: Babcock & Wilcox Goldie McCulloch, CE, B&W
T/G supplier: AEI, Parsons
EPC: Ontario Hydro
Quick facts: Lakeview was taken offline on 30 Apr 2005 after 43yrs of
service, initially supplying almost 20% of Ontario's electricity.
Construction started in Jun 1958 and Unit-1 generated first power on 30
Oct 1961. The 146m stacks were a
landmark on the Lake Ontario waterfront for decades. From 1990-1993,
$C1.1bn was invested in four units to increase efficiency and reliability.
Four units were decommissioned in 1993 due to reduce load forecasts. At
completion, Lakeview had cost $C274mn and was the largest thermal power
plant in the world. It remained the largest thermal plant in Canada until
the completion of Nanticoke. Total station output was over 215 TWh.
Lakeview's main structure have now been demolished and removed. the
controlled implosion of the eight boilers by Dykon Explosive Demolition
from Tulsa, OK, was the first such event broadcast live on Canadian TV.
Photograph courtesy of Ontario Power
Generation
Posted 1 Dec 2007 |
Lambton
Location: ON
Operator: Ontario Power Generation
Configuration: 2 X 500 MW, 2 X 525 MW
Operation: 1969-1970
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: CE
T/G supplier: GE
Quick facts: Lambton is on the St Clair River south of Sarnia, Ontario.
Annual production is around 11 TWh. Units 3&4 were overhauled and retrofit
with Joy/Bischoff FGD scrubbers and B&W Canada SCRs. Full-load coal burn
is 640 ton/hr.
Photograph courtesy of Ontario Power
Generation
Posted 23 Jun 2004 |
Point Aconi
Location: NS
Operator: Nova Scotia Power Inc
Configuration: 1 X 192 MW
Operation: 1994
Fuel: pet coke, bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: Pyropower
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Sargent & Lundy, Mitsui
Quick facts: Point Aconi has Canada's largest fluidized-bed generating
unit. The boiler was re-engineered and partially rebuilt by Foster Wheeler
in a $20mn project beginning in 1999. Fuel was also switched to an
80:20 coke-coal blend. The result was a 10-MW increase in output and
increases in reliability measures. The project won Power magazine's Maramaduke Award in 2006.
Photograph courtesy of Nova Scotia Power
Inc
Posted 23 Jun 2004 |
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Poplar River
Location: SK
Operator: SaskPower
Configuration: 2 X 281 MW
Operation: 1980-1983
Fuel: lignite
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: Hitachi
Quick facts: In the fall of 1974, the
Saskatchewan Government announced the construction of the Poplar River
Power Project. Construction of the Morrison Dam and cooling water
reservoir got underway in 1975 and was completed in 1977. Late in 1975
work began on construction of the power house. The 122m stack can be seen
for many miles around Coronach. The first turbine was commissioned on 20
June 1981. Fuel is supplied from the Luscar Mining Poplar River Coal Mine.
Two of the largest electric draglines in Canada are used to load 150t
haulers, which deliver the coal to the loadout, where it is transported to
the power plant by train.
Photograph courtesy of SaskPower
Posted 8 Sep 2004 |
Richard L Hearn
Location: ON
Operator: Ontario Power Generation
Configuration: 4 X 100 MW, 4 X 200
Operation: 1951-1961 (ret 1983)
Fuel: bituminous coal, natural gas
Boiler supplier: Babcock & Wilcox Goldie McCulloch, CE
T/G supplier: Parsons
EPC: Stone & Webster
Quick facts:Unit-1 at Hearn power station was Canada’s first 100-MW
steam-electric unit and the plant was officially opened on 26 Oct 1951 by
the Hon Leslie Frost, Premier of Ontario, with two units online. The plant
originally burned coal which was transported through the St Lawrence
Seaway. Richard L Hearn reached its full 1,200-MW capacity for the first
time on 22 Mar 1961 and cost C$156mn to build. At full load the boilers
burned about 440 tons/hr of coal. The 200 MW units (5-8) had
cross-compound turbines. Each unit was originally equipped with its own
stack, but in the late 1960s, a 215m stack was added at a cost of $C9m, at
the time one of the tallest stacks in the world. This substantially
reduced-ground level emission impacts. In 1971, the entire plant was
converted to burn Alberta natural gas with four units retaining the option
to burn coal. The station operated on gas until Units 1-5 were mothballed
in the early 1980s. The last three 200-MW units at the plant resumed
burning coal along with natural gas but they were closed in Jul 1983. Some
of the generators were operated as synchronous condensers. In Mar 1990,
Ontario Hydro said it would restart Units 7&8 top meet winter load, and
work was underway when the new NDP government of Premier Bob Rae cancelled
the project. The site was then used occasionally for movie sets and the
Portlands CCGT plant is under construction on adjacent property.
Photograph by SimonP (flickr)
Posted 1 Dec 2007 |
Shand
Location: SK
Operator: SaskPower
Configuration: 1 X 300 MW
Operation: 1992
Fuel: lignite
Boiler supplier: B&W Canada
T/G supplier: Hitachi
Quick facts: In 1993, Shand received an award from Power magazine in
recognition of its advanced pollution control equipment. This includes a LIFAC limestone injection system.
The site is sized for a second unit.
Photograph courtesy of SaskPower
Posted 8 Sep 2004 |
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Sundance
Location: AB
Operator: TransAlta
Configuration: 2 X 304 MW, 3 X 380, 1 X 433
Operation: 1970-1980
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Boiler supplier: CE
T/G supplier: AEI, GEC, EE
Quick facts: This is the largest coal-fired plant in western Canada. In
2005, Sundance received Power magazine's Marmaduke Award for completing
installation of a plantwide wireless network and condition-based
monitoring system.
Photograph courtesy of Power
Posted 21 Sep 2005 |
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Point Tupper
Location: NS
Operator: Nova Scotia Power Inc
Configuration: 1 X 79 MW (ret), 1 X 150 MW
Operation: 1969-1973
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: CE, B&W
T/G supplier: GE, Stal, Howden Parsons, Parsons
Photograph courtesy of Nova Scotia Power
Inc
Posted 23 Jun 2004 |
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