Coal-Fired Plants in Delaware & New Jersey

 

B L England
Location: NJ
Operator: Rockland Capital Energy Investments LLC
Configuration: 1 X 136 MW, 1 X 163 MW, 1 X 176 MW
Operation: 1994
Fuel: bituminous coal, fuel oil
Boiler supplier: B&W, CE
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Bechtel, UE&C
Quick facts: In August 2006, Rockland Capital announced that it would purchase B L England from Atlantic City Electric Co for $12.2mn. The sale closed in Feb 2007. ACE had planned to shutter the plant, but Rockland intends to continue operation and make additional investments to improve environmental performance. Units 1&2 have coal-fired cyclone boilers retrofit with SNCR and OFA systems. Unit 2 also has a GEES wet limestone FGD. In Feb 2004, ACE began using Powder River Basin coal at B L England. The natural draft tower was the first built in the USA using brackish water.

Photograph by Curt Bergesen
Posted 11 Aug 2007

Carneys Point
Location:
NJ
Operator: Cogentrix Energy Inc
Configuration: 1 X 269 MW
Operation: 1994
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: FW
T/G supplier: Alstom
EPC: Bechtel
Quick facts: The plant has twin boilers and a single T/G set. It sells power to Conectiv and steam to DuPont's Chambers Works.  It is equipped with a baghouse, spray dry FGD scrubber, and SCR , the first ammonia-based system on a U.S. pulverized coal unit. The plant was built for U.S. Generating Co and is now owned by various companies including Cogentrix, Delta Power, and Arclight Energy.

Photograph by C Bergesen
Posted 25 Jun 2005

 

Deepwater
Location:
NJ
Operator: Conectiv
Configuration: 1 X 53 MW, 2 X 90 MW
Operation: 1930-1954
Fuel: coal, oil, natural gas
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: GE, WH
Quick facts: This plant was one of the world's first large-scale utility-industrial cogeneration power plants. Steam was supplied to DuPont's nearby Chambers works and later to Texaco.

Photograph courtesy of Conectiv
Posted 12 Oct 2002

 

Edge Moor
Location:
DE
Operator: Conectiv
Configuration: 1 X 86 MW, 1 X 177 MW, 1 X 445 MW
Operation: 1954-1973
Fuel: coal, oil, natural gas
Boiler supplier: CE, B&W
T/G supplier: GE, WH
EPC: UE&C
Quick facts: In 1994, Delmarva Power & Light modified Unit-5 to accommodate use of natural gas for load. Units 3&4 were retrofit with gas ignitors.

Photograph courtesy of Conectiv
Posted 6 Oct 2002

Logan Township
Location:
NJ
Operator: Cogentrix Energy Inc
Configuration: 1 X 230 MW
Operation: 1994
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: FW
T/G supplier: WH
EPC: Bechtel
Quick facts: Logan was the first U.S. coal-fired plant to use plate-type catalysts in its SCR. The plant sells up to 50,000 lbs/hr of steam to Ferro Corp.

Photograph courtesy of Power
Posted 7 Jul 2004

Mercer
Location:
NJ
Operator: PSEG Fossil
Configuration: 2 X 325 MW
Operation: 1960-1961
Fuel: bituminous coal, natural gas
Boiler supplier: FW
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: UE&C
Quick facts: Mercer is on the Delaware River just below the tidehead. At completion it was the largest plant in the Public Service Electric & Gas system. The plant uses an SNCR system and amine-enhanced fuel lean gas reburn (AEFLGR) technology. SCR systems are under construction.

Photograph by C Bergesen
Posted 17 Jul 2004

Abbreviations: B&W = Babcock & Wilcox, CE = Combustion Engineering, FW = Foster Wheeler, GE = General Electric, SCR = selective catalytic reduction, SNCR = selective non-catalytic reduction, T/G = turbine generator, UE&C = United Engineers & Constructors, WH = Westinghouse

Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base

Updated 08/11/07

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