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American Bituminous
Location: WV
Operator: Edison Mission O&M
Configuration: 1 X 95 MW
Operation: 1993
Fuel: bituminous coal waste
Boiler supplier: Pyropower
T/G supplier: GEC-Alstom
EPC: Bibb, Frucon
Quick facts: The ABP plant near Grant Town is owned by Edison Mission
Energy (50%), Perennial Power (40%), American Power Investors (9.5%), and
American Hydro Power Co (0.5%). The facility has a 42yr PPA with Allegheny
Power Systems. The two CFB boilers use waste coal and pond fines from
former mine operations (gob) and over its first 15yrs of operation, ABP
reclaimed about 100ac of abandoned minelands. The facility is connected to
the Rivesville-Fairview 138 kV transmission line.
Photograph courtesy of Perennial Power Holdings Inc
Posted 2 Dec 2009 |
Amos
Location: WV
Operator: Ohio Power Co
Configuration: 2 X 800 MW, 1 X 1,300 MW
Operation: 1971-1973
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: FW, B&W
T/G supplier: GE, BBC
EPC: AEP
Quick facts: Amos Unit-3 is one of
the first three 1,300-MW coal-fired units built in the world and completed
AEP's largest power station. In Jun 2005, the company said it would add FGD
and SCR systems at Amos and completion of the $2bn project was announced
in Feb 2011. B&W built the wet limestone FGDs and Babcock Power
supplied the SCR systems.
Photograph by Tim Smith and courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Posted 21 Aug 2005
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Fort Martin
Location: WV
Operator: Allegheny Energy Supply Co LLC
Configuration: 2 X 576 MW
Operation: 1967-1968
Fuel: bituminous coal, subbituminous coal
Boiler supplier: CE, B&W
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Burns & Roe, Sanderson & Porter
Quick facts: Fort Martin is on a 700ac site on the west bank of the Monongahela River.
The plant cost $226.3mn and was built for a consortium of Monongahela
Power (22.5%), Potomac Edison (27.5%), West Penn Power (25%), and AYP
Energy (25%). Supercritical boilers. The stacks are 550ft tall and the cooling towers are 370ft tall. PRB coal burn
at Ft Martin began in Aug 2005.
Photograph courtesy of Allegheny Energy
Posted 3 Jun 2006 |
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Harrison
Location: WV
Operator: Allegheny Energy Supply Co LLC
Configuration: 3 X 684 MW
Operation: 1972-1974
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: FW
T/G supplier: WH
EPC: Gibbs & Hill
Quick facts: Supercritical
boilers. A new 1,000ft chimney was built by Pullman Power after GE
Environmental Services FGD scrubbers were retrofit to the plant in 1995.
In an unusual arrangement required by the site lay-out, the Unit-2 scrubber
is housed in the base of the new stack. Washington Group was the EPC
contractor for the FGD project.
Photograph courtesy of Allegheny Energy
Posted 1 Jun 2006 |
Kammer
Location: WV
Operator: Ohio Power Co
Configuration: 3 X 238 MW
Operation: 1958-1959
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: AEP
Quick facts: Cross-compound steam turbines.
Photograph courtesy of AEP
Posted 21 Sep 2005 |
Longview
Location: WV
Operator: Longview Power LLC
Configuration: 1 X 739 MW
Operation: 2011
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: FW
T/G supplier: Siemens
EPC: Aker
Quick facts: Longview Power is a minemouth, supercritical generating unit
in Maidsville. The $2bn investment is the largest
privately-funded project in state history. The unit has baghouses, a 98% efficient wet
FGD, overfire air, low-Nox burners, and SCR. Groundbreaking was in May
2007. The plant’s 500kV tie-line to the Allegheny Energy grid was
energized in Mar 2010 and the unit achieved substantial completion at the end of Dec 2011. It was turned over on 3 Jan 2012. Longview Power is majority-owned by GenPower
Holdings LP, which is backed by private equity firm First Reserve Corp.
Photograph courtesy of Siemens
Re-posted 4 Jan 2012 |
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Mitchell
Location: WV
Operator: Ohio Power Co
Configuration: 2 X 816 MW
Operation: 1971
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: FW
T/G supplier: WH, GE
EPC: AEP
Quick facts: These are both supercritical units.
The original 1,206ft stack (now out of service following FGD retrofit) was
the first stack of its height ever built for a power plant. In 2005, B&W
received a $120mn contract to retrofit the Mitchell plant with wet
limestone FGD scrubbers. M J Electric LLC was the lead electrical
contractor for the FGD project, which completed in 2007.
Photograph courtesy of AEP
Posted 21 Sep 2004 |
Mountaineer
Location: WV
Operator: Ohio Power Co
Configuration: 1 X 1,300 MW
Operation: 1980
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: BBC
EPC: AEP
Quick facts: Stack height is 1,103ft. In
Sept 2009, a pilot CCS project was commissioned at Mountaineer using
Alstom's chilled ammonia carbon-capture process. The 20-MW installation
will remove an estimated 90% of CO2 from the flue gas stream it processes.
The CO2 will be compressed and injected into two saline reservoirs at a
about 8,000ft depth. This is a scale-up of a 1.7-MW installation at WE
Energies' Pleasant Prairie power plant. The Mountaineer project is
planned to capture and sequester an estimated 100,000mt of CO2 over a
4-5yr period. Total costs are expected to be over $100mn.
Photograph courtesy of AEP
Posted 21 Sep 2004 |
Mt Storm
Location: WV
Operator: Dominion Virginia Power
Configuration: 2 X 563 MW, 1 X 567 MW
Operation: 1965-1973
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: CE
T/G supplier: Westinghouse, BBC
EPC: Stone & Webster
Quick facts: Mt. Storm in the Allegheny Mountains of northeastern West
Virginia is Dominion’s largest coal-fired power plant. A 1,200ac lake was
built to serve the station and is also used for public recreation. B&W wet
limestone FGD systems were retrofit to Units 1&2 in 2001.
Photograph courtesy of Dominion Virginia Power
Posted 13 Jun 2001 |
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Philip Sporn
Location: WV
Operator: Ohio Power Co
Configuration: 4 X 153 MW, 1 X 496 MW
Operation: 1950-1960
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: AEP
Quick facts: The plant is named after
Philip Sporn, who joined American Gas & Electric Co in 1920 and served as
President of AEP from 1947 to 1961. He pioneered the deployment of large
central stations tied together by high-voltage transmission lines and the
steady increase in thermal plant efficiency exemplified by the Sporn
plant, which has all cross-compound steam turbines and one of the largest
supercritical units built to that date in Unit-5. Units 1&2 were the
first units in the world to attain heat rates under 10,000 btu/kWh.
Photograph courtesy of AEP
Posted 25 Sep 2005 |
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Pleasants
Location: WV
Operator: Reliant Energy Supply Co LLC
Configuration: 2 X 684 MW
Operation: 1979-1980
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: FW
T/G supplier: ACPS
EPC: UE&C
Quick facts: The Pleasants power station on the Ohio River cost $777.1mn
and its two supercritical units were among the last built in the
USA during the 1970s construction cycle. The 1,251ac site includes the
McElroy impoundment. Each stack is 1,000ft tall and the cooling towers top
out at 428ft. For some years, this was the only plant in West Virginia
with an FGD scrubber. A new gypsum wallboard plant was completed nearby in 2000 to recycle byproducts from the
B&W FGD system.
Photograph courtesy of Allegheny Energy
Re-posted 8 Mar 2009 |
