Genesee Generating Station

Genesee Generating Station is a coal fired station owned by Capital Power Corporation, located near Genesee, Alberta, Canada; 71 km (44 miles) southwest of Edmonton, Alberta. Fuel is provided by the nearby coal mine, a joint venture of EPCOR and Westmoreland Prairie Resources. The Genesee cooling pond is a reservoir covering 735 hectares (1,820 acres). The pond is topped up with water from the North Saskatchewan River.

Genesee Generating Station
Genesee Generating Station in 2020
Country
  • Canada
LocationGenesee, Alberta
Coordinates53.343°N 114.303°W / 53.343; -114.303
StatusOperational
Commission date1989 (G2), 1994 (G1), 2005 (G3)
Owner(s)Capital Power
Thermal power station
Primary fuelCoal (81%)
Natural gas (19%)
Turbine technologySteam turbine
Cooling sourceGenesee cooling pond
Power generation
Units operational2 × 430 MW subcritical coal-fired steam
1 × 516 MW supercritical coal-fired steam
Units planned2 × 530 MW combined cycle gas turbines (both 50% Capital Power Corporation, 50% ENMAX Corporation)
Nameplate capacity1,376 MW

The station consists of three units.

Description

The Genesee Generating Station consists of:[1][2]

  • G1 - one 400 net MW unit (commissioned in May 1994)
  • G2 - one 400 net MW unit (commissioned in October 1989)
  • G3 - one 466 net MW unit (commissioned in March 2005)

The boilers were supplied by Combustion Engineering/Hitachi while the turbines/generator are supplied by GEC/Hitachi.[3] The plant has two smokestacks, one 138 m (453 ft) tall, the other 121 m (397 ft) tall.[4]

Conversion to natural gas

On 18 June 2019, Capital Power announced plans to expand the "dual-fuel" capabilities of all three units to running off 50% coal and 50% natural gas, with the intent to convert the power station to 100% natural gas use by 2030. Capital Power submitted applications in 2020 and received approval from the AUC and AEP in 2021 to convert Units 1 and 2 to Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) technology. The project also includes addition of a 210 MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). [5] Unit 3 was converted to a 60/40 ratio of coal to natural gas in spring 2021 and will be converted to enable 100% gas firing in 2023. [6] According to Capital Power, all units were be off coal by 2023.[7] The date for units 1 and 2 has since been delayed to 2024.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Presentation on G3" (PDF). Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2017-08-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Coal Fired Power Plants in Canada - Power Plants Around the World Archived 5 December 2012 at archive.today
  4. "Environment and Climate Change Canada - NPRI Data Search". ec.gc.ca. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  5. "Repowering of Genesee 1 & 2". Retrieved 2023-01-17.
  6. "Genesee Generating Station 3". Retrieved 2023-01-17.
  7. "Genesee Generating Station". Capital Power. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  8. "Genesee Generating Station Repowering Genesee 1 & 2". Capital Power. Retrieved 21 August 2023.


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