Sentences with phrase «mw coal unit»

In December 2011 Kentucky Power, owned by American Electric Power (AEP), one of the country's largest electric holding companies, requested approval for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) and associated cost recovery to invest approximately $ 950 million on environmental compliance measures at its Big Sandy Unit 2, an 800 MW coal unit approximately 40 years old.

Not exact matches

The Big Cajun 2 plant consists of three coal - fired steam units with a total capacity of 1700 MW and has been in operation since 1981.

That project would include the closure of DEP's existing 379 MW Asheville 1 and 2 coal units and construction of about 752 MW of natural gas - fired generation (two 280 MW combined cycle units proposed to commence operations in 2019 and an optional 192 MW combustion turbine unit proposed to commence operations in 2023).

In fact, APS» 2012 purchase of Southern California Edison's share of the Four Corners coal plant — adding 179 megawatts (MW) to APS» owned coal capacity — was a step in the opposite direction from clean energy and for protecting ratepayers, since APS has had to spend over $ 400 million for emissions control of these units.

Industry witnesses were lining up Sept. 11 to take shots at a proposal by the Ohio Power unit of American Electric Power to protect the futures of about 3,100 MW of coal - fired generation through a power purchase agreement it wants approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

Kentucky Power on Aug. 28, in a twice - yearly fuel report filed at the Kentucky Public Service Commission, was essentially making the last such report where its 800 - MW, coal - fired Big Sandy Unit 2 ran for the full period before being retired.

She points out that wind power is actually more labour intensive than coal, and requires 2.5 time more units of labour for every MW of electricity produced.

«At 50 MW — 350 MW, modular units could provide efficiency and cost benefits, but probably wouldn't have significant impact on coal demand given the number of coal - fired unit retirements / closures being considered and the length of time this would take to get to the commercial stage (5 — 10 years).

The net summer capacity of the average retired coal unit was 133 megawatts (MW), compared with 278 MW for the rest of the coal units still operating.

Under the terms of the US$ 715m contract, the Chinese will build an additional 350 MW unit at Kostolac and expand operations at a nearby opencast mine producing lignite — the «dirtiest» coal.

On March 2, for example, German coal generator Enervie said it would close the 310 - MW Werdohl - Elverlingsen unit — a 1982 - built plant in North Rhine - Westphalia that ran only 780 hours last year — by month's end.

On the same day, German generator STEAG filed a legally binding notice with the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to permanently shutter both units at its 507 - MW Lünen hard coal — fired power plant by March 2019 (Figure 2).

Dangjin city already has the world's largest operating coal plants now (10 units 6,040 mw).

It was designed as a coal - fired plant, with a generating capacity from four units of more than 1,500 MW.

The to - be-retired units have an average summer nameplate capacity of 158 MW, considerably smaller than the 261 MW average for other coal - fired units.

Today the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors voted unanimously to retire all three coal - fired units of the Allen Fossil Plant (990 MW) in Memphis and approved replacement with a new 1,000 MW natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) plant.

The thing is when you have a wind farm with say 100 2 MW turbines, the failure of one turbine will not interrupt service, but large coal, nuclear and gas units tripping off line can cause more troubles.

PEF plans to retire two older coal - fired units totaling 869 MW, or about 38 % of its coal capacity.

For example, on January 7, 2018, a peak winter demand day, PJM reported 8,096 MW of natural gas plant outages, 6,935 MW of coal outages, 5,913 MW of natural gas supply outages, and 2,807 MW of «other» outages (which includes wind, solar, hydro, and methane units).

Last summer, FirstEnergy said it planned to sell or close its 136 MW Bay Shore coal plant in Oregon, Ohio, and units 1 - 4, representing 720 MW, of its seven unit W.H. Sammis coal plant in Stratton, Ohio, by 2020.

plant was a 1400 MW capability, 4 units running on coal, gas and oil.