Big Cajun II
Location: LA
Operator: NRG Energy
Configuration: 3 X 611 MW
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Operation: 1981-1983
Boiler supplier: RS, B&W
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Burns & Roe, Bovay
Quick facts: Big Cajun II is outside Baton Rouge. It was developed and built by Cajun Electric Power Coop and acquired by NRG with other coop assets in May 2000 after CEPC declared bankruptcy. A fourth unit was in development from 2005 to early 2010. The plant has been permitted for biomass combustion.
Photograph by Scott Mosher
Posted 8 Feb 2012 |
Dolet Hills
Location: LA
Operator: Cleco Power
Configuration: 1 X 650 MW
Fuel: lignite
Operation: 1986
Boiler supplier: FW
T/G supplier: WH
EPC: S&L, Austin Constructors
Quick facts: When built, Dolet Hills was jointly-owned by Central
Louisiana Electric and Southwestern Electric Power. The plant fires lignite mined nearby.
Photograph courtesy of Cleco Corp
Posted 4 Sep 2002 |
Flint Creek
Location: AR
Operator: Southwestern Electric Power Co
Configuration: 1 X 558 MW
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Operation: 1978
Boiler supplier: BW
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Sargent & Lundy, Austin
Quick facts: Flint Creek is a 50:50 JV of SWEPCO and Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. COD was 1 Jul 1978. This was both the first completed joint power project in Arkansas and the first full-size, modern coal-fired plant in the state. The plant cooling lake is open to the public for recrreational use.
Photograph courtesy of SWEPCO
Posted 11 Feb 2012 |
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Independence
Location: AR
Operator: Entergy Arkansas
Configuration: 2 X 800 MW
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Operation: 1983-1984
Boiler supplier: CE
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Chas T Main, Brown & Root
Quick facts: Independence is jointly owned by a group of nine municipal, coop, investor-owned, and deregulated power companies.
Photograph courtesy of Entergy Arkansas
Posted 9 Apr 2002 |
Jack Watson
Location: MS
Operator: Mississippi Power Co
Configuration: 2 X 75 MW, 1 X 112 MW, 1 X 250 MW, 1 X 500 MW
Operation: 1955-1961
Fuel: coal, natural gas
Boiler supplier: CE, RS, FW
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Southern Co
Quick facts: Units 1-3 are gas fired. The plant was flooded by Hurricane
Katrina in Aug 2005.
Photograph by Linda Saxon Nix
Re-posted 15 Sep 2007 |
John W Turk
Location: AR
Operator: Southwestern Electric Power Co
Configuration: 1 X 672 MW
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Operation: 2012
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: Alstom
EPC: Shaw
Quick facts: This is the first modern ultrasupercritical generating unit in the USA. The 2,800ac site is north of Fulton, in Hempstead Co. Construction began in Nov 2008 and the unit went commercial on 20 Dec 2012. The $1.7bn facility is jointly-owned by AEP/SWEPCO (73%), Arkansas Electric Cooperative (12%), East Texas Electric Cooperative (8%), and Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority (7%).
The plant is named for John W Turk Jr, president and CEO of SWEPCO from 1983-1988.
Photograph courtesy of SWEPCO
Posted 22 Dec 2012 |
Plum Point
Location: AR
Operator: Dynegy Midwest Generation Inc
Configuration: 1 X 720 MW
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Operation: 2010
Boiler supplier: IHI
T/G supplier: Toshiba
EPC: B&V, Zachry, Kiewit
Quick facts: Plum Point is on the Mississippi River in Osceola. The
developer was LS Power Development in a JV with Empire District Electric
Co, East Texas Electric Cooperative, Municipal Energy Agency of Mississippi (MEAM) and
Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission,
representing seven municipalities in Arkansas and Missouri. Goldman Sachs
arranged the complex, $975mn financing packages for the project.
Ground-breaking was on 31 May 2006 and the plant was declared in service
before the 15 Aug 2010 contractual deadline.
Photograph courtesy of Empire District Electric Co
Posted 18 Aug 2010 |
Red Hills
Location: MS
Operator: Suez Energy Generation NA
Configuration: 1 X 490 MW
Fuel: lignite, natural gas, wood
Operation: 2002
Boiler supplier: Alstom
T/G supplier: Toshiba
EPC: Bechtel
Quick facts: This $500mn IPP project has two CFB boilers feeding a single T/G
set. Construction on the 3,000ac site started in Nov 1998 after 3yrs of
development work by Tractebel Power. Red Hill Mine delivers about 10,000 tpd of
lignite to the power station and electricity is sold to TVA.
Photograph courtesy of Suez Energy North America
Posted 28 Jun 2006 |
Rodemacher
Location: LA
Operator: Cleco Power
Configuration: 1 X 446 MW, 1 X 558 MW
Fuel: subbituminous coal, natural gas, oil
Operation: 1975-1982
Boiler supplier: B&W, FW
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: S&L, Brown & Root
Quick facts: Unit-1 is 100% owned by Cleco Corp and gas-fired. Unit-2 is jointly owned by Cleco Power, Lafayette Utilities
System and Louisiana Electric Power Authority (LEPA) and is coal-fired. The plant’s 3,000ac cooling lake is open to the
public for recreational purposes.
Photograph courtesy of Cleco Corp
Posted 3 Sep 2002 |
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Rodemacher Unit 3
Location: LA
Operator: Cleco Power
Configuration: 1 X 660 MW
Fuel: pet coke, coal
Operation: 2010
Boiler supplier: FW
T/G supplier: Hitachi
EPC: Shaw
Quick facts: This $1bn project took 6yrs to develop and build. Up to 2,100
workers were on site during the construction program. Construction began
in May 2006 and commercial operation was declared on 12 Feb 2010.
Rodemacher-3 has twin CFB boilers driving a single T/G set.
Photograph courtesy of Cleco Corp
Posted 31 Mar 2010 |
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