Mountaineer Power Plant
Mountaineer Power Plant | |
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Country | United States |
Location | Mason County, near New Haven, West Virginia |
Coordinates | 38°58′42″N 81°56′08″W / 38.97833°N 81.93556°W |
Status | Operational |
Commission date | September 1980 |
Owner(s) | American Electric Power |
Thermal power station | |
Primary fuel | Bituminous coal |
Turbine technology | Steam turbine |
Cooling source | Closed cycle, make-up water from Ohio River |
Power generation | |
Units operational | 1 |
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The Mountaineer Power Plant is a major
The AEP Mountaineer Plant is what is known as a 1300 megawatt plant. The actual total capacity of the plant's two turbines is around 1480 MW, and the plant averages around 1420 MW. 1300 MW is the net power that actually leaves the plant, whereas the difference between the turbine output and the 1300 MW is required to run the plant itself. It is a "closed-loop" plant in that it recycles the
The plant burns an average of 9,000 tons (8,200 metric tons) of
The location of the plant is routinely given as New Haven, West Virginia, yet sits just outside the town limits. The plant actually sits on land that was originally known as Graham Station. The next-door Phillip Sporn AEP plant and the Mountaineer Plant seem to cover most of the land of the former Graham Station, thus Graham Station is seldom used as a locale.
Clean coal project
There were plans to outfit the plant with technology that uses chilled ammonia to trap carbon dioxide. The greenhouse gas would then be turned into a liquid and injected into the ground. It would have been the first such project that will both capture and store carbon from an existing power plant.[1] A successful pilot project was built using the new technology which removed 100,000 to 300,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide of the 8.5 million tons emitted annually by the Mountaineer plant. According to
See also
- List of power stations
References
- ^ Warner, Melanie (2009-02-14), "Is America Ready to Quit Coal?", The New York Times
- ^ Matthew L. Wald; John M. Broder (July 13, 2011). "Utility Shelves Ambitious Plan to Limit Carbon". The New York Times. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
Congressional inaction on climate change diminished the incentives that had spurred A.E.P. to take the leap.