Coal-Fired Power Plants in California & Nevada

Ace Cogen Location: CA Operator: Ace Cogen Trona Operating Partners Configuration: 1 X 108 MW CHP Operation: 1990 Fuel: bituminous coal, petroleum coke, TDF Boiler supplier: Foster Wheeler T/G supplier: Hitachi, MHI EPC: Black & Veatch Quick facts: This CFB unit is largest coal-fired cogeneration facility in the state. It is a Qualifying Facility with an agreement to supply power to Southern California Edison until Nov 2015. Steam is supplied to two North American Chemical Co soda ash plants adjacent to the site. Photograph courtesy of Foster Wheeler Posted 27 Nov 2005	Mohave Location: NV Operator: Southern California Edison Co Configuration: 2 X 790 MW Operation: 1971 (ret 2005) Fuel: subbituminous coal Boiler supplier: CE T/G supplier: GE EPC: Bechtel Quick facts: Mohave was on a 2,500ac site in the Sonora Desert adjacent to the Colorado River in Laughlin, Clark Co. It had supercritical boilers and cross-compound steam turbines. The plant was owned by a utility consortium of operator Southern California Edison Co (56%), LADWP (10%), Nevada Power (14%), and Salt River Project (20%). Mohave was the only power plant in the USA that used coal delivered by coal-slurry pipeline. The 18in diameter Black Mesa Pipeline runs 275mi from Peabody's Black Mesa Mine in Kayenta, AZ, and could deliver 660 tph. Four 8mn gallon storage tanks each held the equivalent of 20,000t of dry coal. The slurry transport water was recycled for cooling tower makeup and this and all other wastewater was recycled and reused making Mohave a zero-discharge facility. The plant was shut in Dec 2005 to comply with a consent agreement reached to settle a 1998 CAA lawsuit brought by several environmental groups. About 300 staff lost their jobs. In May 2007, SCE discontinued efforts to restart or sell the plant. Dismantling got underway in Oct 2009 and is expected to take 2yrs and cost $30mn. Plant demolition began with the toppling of the stack on 11 Mar 2011. Photograph by Brandon Neuman (northernarizonanews.com) Posted 19 Mar 2011	Mount Poso Location: CA Operator: Northern Star Generation LLC Configuration: 1 X 62 MW Operation: 1989 Fuel: bituminous coal, petroleum coke, TDF Boiler supplier: Foster Wheeler T/G supplier: GEC-Alstom EPC: Bechtel Quick facts: This cogeneration plant was originally built by Mt Poso Cogeneration Co, a joint venture of Ahlstrom Development Corp, Pacific Generation Co, and Bechtel Enterprises. The facility provides steam for enhanced oil recovery at the Mt. Poso Field-West and was originally built as a baseload cogen plant under PURPA but deregulation in California starting in 1998 moved it to a cycling merchant-plant business model. Photograph courtesy of Foster Wheeler Posted 27 Nov 2005
Stockton Cogen Location: CA Operator: Ace Products & Chemicals Configuration: 1 X 55 MW CHP Operation: 1988 Fuel: bituminous coal, petroleum coke Boiler supplier: Pyropower T/G supplier: ABB EPC: Stearns Catalytic, Schneider Engineers Quick facts: On 30 Nov 1984, CPC Internaitonal Inc and PG&E signed a SO4 PPA for capacity and energy from the Stockton CFB cogen plant. CPC later leeasd the property plus all rights and obligations associated with the PPA to Air Products.The PPA expired in 2012 and the plant was closed thereafter. There are plans to convert to biomass fuels in the future. Photograph courtesy of Air Products Posted 11 Apr 2012		TS Power Location: NV Operator: Newmont Mining Corp Configuration: 1 X 220 MW Operation: 2008 Fuel: subbituminous coal Boiler supplier: B&W Canada T/G supplier: Toshiba EPC: Fluor Quick facts: In Jul 2005, B&W received a contract valued at more than $40mn for the boiler, an SCR, and associated auxiliary equipment. The majority of the pressure parts were fabricated by Babcock & Wilcox Beijing Company, Ltd. The final permit requirements for this plant was issued in Dec 2005. The plant is on the TS Ranch in Eureka county and cost about $630mn. Newmont uses about three-quarters of the output to support its Nevada mining operations with the balance sold to Sierra Pacifc Power. TS Power is operated by DTE Energy. Photograph courtesy of Newmont Mining Corp Posted 17 Sep 2008