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Ashtabula
Location: OH
Operator: FirstEnergy Corp
Configuration: 4 X 50 MW (ret), 4 X 46 MW (ret) 1 X 256 MW
Operation: 1930-1958
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W, CE
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: CE, Gilbert
Quick facts: In 1948/49, Ashtabula was extended when Union Carbide built
Plant C, a 160-MW facility. This was later acquired by Cleveland Electric
Illuminating Co, which had previously built an adjacent coal plant, and
the four units were closed in 1989. The erstwhile Plant C facility has
been proposed for repowering with biomass fuels. The remaining unit on the
137ac site has switched to PRB coal.
Photograph courtesy of FirstEnergy Corp
Posted 5 Dec 2009 |
Avon Lake
Location: OH
Operator: RRI Energy Inc
Configuration: 5 X 38 MW (ret), 2 X 86 MW (ret) 1 X 235 MW (ret), 1 X 680 MW
Operation: 1926-1970
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: CE, B&W
T/G supplier: GE, WH
EPC: Cleveland Electric Illuminating, S&L
Quick facts: Avon Lake has a 107ac site on the southern shore of Lake
Erie. The plant was built by Cleveland Electric, acquired on an interim
basis by Duquesne Light, auctioned off to Orion Power Holdings in Oct
1999, and finally settled with Reliant Energy when that company took over
Orion. Only the supercritical Unit-9 remains online. This continues to
burn Eastern bituminous coals but is capable of burning PRB coal.
Photograph courtesy of FirstEnergy Corp
Posted 5 Dec 2009 |
Cardinal
Location: OH
Operator: Cardinal Operating Co
Configuration: 2 X 615 MW, 1 X 650 MW
Operation: 1967-1977
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: GE, BBC
EPC: AEP, S&L, J A Jones
Quick facts: All three units are supercritical, Units 1&2 are double reheat. All three
units were retrofit with SCR at a cost of $200mn and in 2007/08, wet lime
FGD scrubbers from Chiyoda were completed on Units 1&2. Local
cooperative Buckeye Power owns Units 2&3, AEP owns Unit-1 and is plant
operator. This is said to be the first such arrangement of joint power station development by an investor-owned utility and a public-power utility.
The stack for Units 1&2 is 1,000ft tall, the stack for Unit-3 is 900ft tall. The Unit-3 cooling tower is 423ft tall and 384ft in diameter at the base.
The plant is on the Ohio River near Brilliant.
Photograph courtesy of AEP
Posted 19 Sep 2005 |
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Conesville
Location: OH
Operator: Columbus Southern Power Co
Configuration: 2 X 125 MW, 1 X 165 MW, 1 X 780 MW, 2 X 375 MW
Operation: 1959-1978
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W, RS, CE
T/G supplier: WH
EPC: Ebasco, B&V, Blount
Quick facts: Supercritical Unit-4 is jointly owned with Cincinnati Gas & Electric and Dayton Power &
Light. Conesville cost $516mn to build and about a quarter of the plant
coal burn was sourced from a nearby mine owned by AEP. A $35mn coal prep
plant was completed in 1985.
Photograph courtesy of AEP
Posted 21 Sep 2005
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Eastlake
Location: OH
Operator: FirstEnergy Corp
Configuration: 3 X 123 MW, 1 X 208 MW, 1 X 680 MW
Operation: 1953-1972
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: CE, B&W
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: CE, Gilbert
Quick facts: Unit-5 is supercritical. This was one of the first large
units to trip offline in the Aug 2003 Midwest/East Coast blackout, the
largest in the USA to that date. The site is on Lake Erie. From 1957 to
1963, the Eastlake plant was supplied with about 6mn tons of coal
delivered by a 108mi, 10in diameter coal slurry pipeline originating at
the Hanna Coal Co Georgetown coal prep plant in Cadiz, OH.
Photograph courtesy of FirstEnergy Corp
Posted 29 Nov 2009 |
Gavin
Location: OH
Operator: Ohio Power Co
Configuration: 2 X 1,300 MW
Operation: 1974-1975
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: BBC
EPC: AEP
Quick facts: Gavin is the largest power
plant in Ohio and has two of the seven largest coal-fired generating units
ever built. The plant is equipped with FGD and SCR systems (installed
after this photo was taken). The cooling
towers are 492ft tall. Coal burn at full load is 25,000 tpd. The plant is
named after General James M Gavin.
Photograph courtesy of AEP
Posted 21 Sep 2004 |
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JM Stuart
Location: OH
Operator: Dayton Power & Light Co
Configuration: 4 X 610 MW
Operation: 1971-1974
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Ebasco
Quick facts: Stuart is on the Ohio River in Brown Co. Duke Energy
owns 39% of the plant, Dayton Power & Light owns 35%, and AEP owns 26%.
The plant is named for J M Stuart, who was elected President and CEO of
DP&L in 1958. Plant construction started in 1965 and the power station
cost $375mn. Stuart has been retrofit with Chiyoda Corp CT-121 FGD scrubbers and SCR. The photo is ca 1995.
Photograph courtesy of PSI Energy
Posted 29 Nov 2009 |
Killen
Location: OH
Operator: Dayton Power & Light Co
Configuration: 1 X 666 MW
Operation: 1982
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Ebasco, Daniel
Quick facts: In May 2007, DPL and Black & Veatch started-up a Chiyoda
Corp CT-121 FGD scrubber at Killen, the largest of its kind in North
America at the tine. This and four similar systems at the Stuart
plant cost about $500mn. The Killen scrubber guarantees 97% SO2 removal.
The FGD project included a river barge limestone receiving system,
limestone grinding and prep plants, gypsum dewatering and load-out
equipment, and refurbishment work on the 900ft stack.
The unit has been test-fired with biomass. Killen is jointly owned with Cinergy Corp. This is Killen Unit-2, Unit-1 was never built.
This photo is ca 1995.
Photograph courtesy of PSI Energy
Re-posted 29 Nov 2009 |
Kyger Creek
Location: OH
Operator: Ohio Valley Electric Corp
Configuration: 5 X 217 MW
Operation: 1955
Fuel: bituminous and subbituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: GE, WH
EPC: S&L
Quick facts: In October 1952, Ohio Valley Electric Corp and and its wholly
-owned subsidiary Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corp were formed by a group of
investor-owned utilities in the Ohio Valley to build two coal-fired plants
to furnish electricity for the uranium enrichment plant at Portsmouth, OH. From
the time of plant operation until April 30, 2000, when the enrichment
plant sales contract was terminated, these power stations
operated at extraordinarily high load factors and for many years were
among the most efficient and cost-effective power plants in the U.S.
Today, the plants serve regional load via a 345kV transmission system.
Current plant ownership rests with 12 utilities, several of which are
operating companies of large holding companies. Major investments have
been made or are planned in environmental controls at both plants.
Photograph courtesy of Ohio Valley Electric Corp
Posted 12 May 2006 |
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Lake Shore
Location: OH
Operator: FirstEnergy Corp
Configuration: 2 X 60 MW (ret), 2 X 69 MW (ret), 1 X 256 MW
Operation: 1941-1962
Fuel: bituminous coal, fuel oil
Boiler supplier: B&W, CE
T/G supplier: GE
Quick facts: The first unit at Lake Shore was opened in 1911 by Cleveland
Electric Illuminating Co. The remaining smaller units were converted to
oil firing in 1977.
Photograph courtesy of FirstEnergy Corp<
Posted 29 Nov 2009 |
Mad River
Location: OH
Operator: Ohio Edison Co
Configuration: 1 X 20 MW, 2 X 25 MW (ret)
Operation: 1927-1950
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: CE, Riley
T/G supplier: GE
Quick facts: Ohio Edison built this power station at the confluence of
Buck Creek and Mad River. The plant was designed by Springfield architect
W K Shilling. The units were retired in 1980 (Unit-1) and 1985 (Units 2&3)
and station was demolished in 2010.
Photograph by pack489 (webshots)
Posted 21 Jul 2010 |
Miami Fort
Location: OH
Operator: Duke Energy Ohio
Configuration: 1 X 100 MW (ret), 1 X 168 MW, 2 X 512 MW
Operation: 1949-1978
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W, CE
T/G supplier: GE, WH
EPC: S&L
Quick facts: Miami Fort is in
North Bend 20mi west of Cincinnati. Duke Energy owns 100% of Unit-5
and 64% Units 7&8. Dayton Power & Light owns 36% of these units. The large
units have been retrofit with SCRs and B&W wet limestone FGDs. In 1993, Miami Fort
employees installed a nesting box for peregrine falcons at a 400ft
elevation on the Unit-8 stack.
Photograph courtesy of PSI Energy
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Muskingum River
Location: OH
Operator: Columbus Southern Power Co
Configuration: 2 X 220 MW, 2 X 238 MW, 1 X 650 MW
Operation: 1953-1968
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Ebasco, B&V, Blount
Quick facts: Supercritical Unit-5 has been retrofit with SCR at a cost of about $71mn. Plant coal burn is about 3.5mn tpy.
Muskingum River received an Ohio Governor’s Pollution Prevention Award in 1999 for increasing plant efficiency, reducing water consumption,
and reducing the use of hazardous chemicals.
Photograph courtesy of AEP
Posted 24 Sep 2005 |
Niles
Location: OH
Operator: RRI Energy Inc
Configuration: 2 X 133 MW
Operation: 1954
Fuel: bituminous coal, refuse
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: WH
EPC: Commonwealth Associates
Quick facts: The Haldor-Topsoe SNOX flue gas cleaning technology was
demonstrated in a $33mn, U.S. DOE-funded program at Niles Unit-2. The
plant has cyclone boilers and was built and operated for many years by
Ohio Edison Co. The plant was later sold to Reliance Energy, now RRI
Energy.
Photograph courtesy of US Department of Energy
Re-posted 23 Nov 2009 |
Philo
Location: OH
Operator: Ohio Power Co
Configuration: 2 X 40 MW, 1 X 109 MW, 1 X 85 MW, 1 X 125 MW
Operation: 1925-1957 (ret)
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: GE
Quick facts: Philo was both the site of the first
reheat generating unit (Philo-1) and the first supercritical unit with
double reheat (Philo-6). In Aug 2003, Philo-6 was named a historic
mechanical engineering landmark by the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers. Unit design began in 1953 and commercial operation was on 1 Aug
1957. The unit was deactivated in 1975, officially retired in 1979, and
the plant dismantled in 1983/84. Babcock & Wilcox built the Unit-6 boiler
and General Electric built the T/G set. The feedwater inlet pressure of
5,500psig and the turbine throttle pressure of 4,500psig were almost
double the steam pressure previously utilized for power production. Main
steam temperatures were 1150F/1050/1000. The cyclone furnace design,
integrated unit controls, feedwater chemical control, boiler startup
system, and DeLaval feed-pump design were all uniquely developed for this
pioneering unit.
Photograph courtesy of AEP
Posted 27 Jun 2007 |
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Piqua
Location: OH
Operator: Piqua Municipal Utilities
Configuration: 1 X 7.5 MW, 1 X 12.5 MW, 1 X 20 MW CHP
Operation: 1947-1961 (ret)
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: ??
T/G supplier: ??
Quick facts: The first generating units at this plant on the Miami River
went online in 1933 and the plant was built out with district heating
capability. The electric section of the plant was decommissioned in 1997
and the hot water section in 2007.
Photograph by C Bergesen
Posted 13 Aug 2003 |
Tidd
Location: OH
Operator: Ohio Power Co
Configuration: 1 X 111 MW, 1 X 115 Mw
Operation: 1945-1948
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: ??
T/G supplier: ??
Quick facts: This was the site of the first combined cycle operation of a PFBC plant in North America. Tidd, which is adjacent to the Cardinal power station, was originally retired in 1979 and the Unit-1 repowering project cost $189.9mn. The PFBC equipmetn was suppled by ASA Babcock.
The PFBC project was online from Oct 1990 through Mar 1995 and reached a maxiumum output of 72 MW. Plant namesake George Nathan Tidd was hired in 1904 to operate the Electric Company of America's property in Indiana.
Photograph courtesy of US Department of Energy
Posted 5 Sep 2012 |
RE Burger
Location: OH
Operator: FirstEnergy Corp
Configuration: 2 X 58 MW (ret), 1 X 104 MW, 2 X 156 MW
Operation: 1944-1955
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: GE, WH
Quick facts: FirstEnergy, Powerspan Inc, the Ohio Coal Development Office, and the U.S. Dept of Energy are
using Burger for a large-scale demonstration of Powerspan's Electro-catalytic
Oxidation (ECO) technology to reduce emissions of SOX and NOX, fine particulates,
mercury and other pollutants. The Burger stack is 850ft tall.
Photograph courtesy of Power
Posted 25 Oct 2004 |
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WC Beckjord
Location: OH
Operator: Duke Energy Ohio
Configuration: 2 X 100 MW 1 X 125 MW, 1 X 165 MW, 1 X 434 MW
Operation: 1952-1969
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: CE, B&W
T/G supplier: GE, WH
EPC: S&L, Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Quick facts: W C Beckjord Station is located in New Richmond. Duke Energy owns 100%
of Units 1-5 and 37.5% of Unit 6, which is jointly owned with Dayton Power
& Light (50%) and American Electric Power (12.5%). The units have been
retrofit with SO3 flue-gas conditioning systems. The plant is named after
Walter C Beckjord who was named President of Cincinnati Gas & Electric in
1945.
Photograph courtesy of PSI
Energy
Posted 22 Nov 2009
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WH Sammis
Location: OH
Operator: FirstEnergy Corp
Configuration: 4 X 190 MW, 1 X 334 MW, 2 X 680 MW
Operation: 1959-1971
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: FW, B&W
T/G supplier: GE, Westinghouse
EPC: Commonwealth Assoc, Gilbert, Townsend & Bottum
Quick facts: From 1980-1984, Ohio Edison invested $426mn in new pollution control
equipment at Sammis, at the time the largest such project ever undertaken
in North America. The new equipment was
installed in front of the plant on a deck constructed over four lanes of Ohio
State Rt 7. Units 1-4 were retrofit with baghouses and the precipitators at Units 5-7 were
upgraded. The primary fuel is Ohio coal blended with lower sulfur regional
coal, and more than 60% of all coal used at the plant is washed. In March 2005,
FirstEnergy settled a lawsuit with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency resolving New Source Review litigation
mainly affecting the Sammis plant. The settlement calls for the investment of
$1.1bn in air-pollution control equipment at Sammis and other plants by 2010.
Unit-2 held the U.S. record for continuous operation from 14 Nov 2005 when
it completed a run of 1,107 days, 2hr, 59min, until Feb 2007 when the record
was broken by TVA's Shawnee-6.
Photograph by Mark Morey
Posted 13 Aug 2003 |
Woodcock
Location: OH
Operator: Ohio Power Co
Configuration: 2 X 5 MW, 1 X 7.5 Mw, 2 X 12.5 MW
Operation: 1937-1950
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: Riley Stoker
T/G supplier: WH
Quick facts: Central Ohipo Light & Power Co built this plant at an abandoned stone quarry east of Bluffton. The quarry was filled with water and used as a 26ac cooling pond. Fuel delivery was via the Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad (ACYR). The plant went into reserve in 1958 and was reactivated for a time in 1967. It was finally retired in 1979. This photo was apparently taken before the final two units were added in 1947 and 1950, respectively.
Photograph courtesy of www.blufftonicon.com
Posted 5 Sep 2012 |
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Zimmer
Location: OH
Operator: Cinergy Corp
Configuration: 1 X 1,425 MW
Operation: 1991
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: BBC, WH
EPC: S&L, Kaiser (nuc), AEP (coal)
Quick facts: This is the largest single-unit fossil generating unit ever
built. It results from the unique conversion and re-use of the LP turbine, cooling system,
and site ancillaries associated with the cancelled Zimmer nuclear power plant. A new
boiler and HP turbine were added along with other necessary fuel-handling
and pollution control equipment. Zimmer began life as an 800-MW BWR and
construction got underway in 1969. In 1984, the nuclear project was
terminated at over 95% completion. In the meantime, the completion cost
had increased from $230mn to an estimated $3.4bn. In 1987, joint owners AEP, Cincinnati Gas & Electric, and Dayton Power & Light, having already
put $1.7bn into the plant site, decided to invest about $1bn in the coal
conversion project. The plant is named after William H Zimmer who was
elected President of Cincinnati Gas & Electric in 1962.
Photograph courtesy of Power
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