Hatfield's Ferry Power Station

Hatfield's Ferry Power Station was a 1.7-gigawatt (1,700 MW), coal power plant located in Greene County, Pennsylvania. The plant was operated by FirstEnergy. It began operations in 1969 and was shut down in 2013.

Hatfield's Ferry Power Station
Hatfield's Ferry Power Station in 1978
CountryUnited States
LocationGreene County, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°51′20″N 79°55′39″W
StatusDecommissioned
Commission date1969
Decommission dateUnits 1–3: October 9, 2013
Owner(s)FirstEnergy
Operator(s)FirstEnergy
Thermal power station
Primary fuelCoal
Cooling sourceMonongahela River
Power generation
Nameplate capacity1,700 MW
External links
CommonsRelated media on Commons

History

Hatfield's Ferry began generation in 1969 under the operations of Allegheny Energy.[1] FirstEnergy assumed operations of Hatfield's Ferry following its merger with Allegheny Energy in 2010.[2]

Environmental mitigation

In the mid-1990s, Allegheny Energy installed a control system which reduced the plant's nitrogen oxide (NO
x ) emissions. In 2001, Hatfield's Ferry added a natural gas reburn system.[1] In that same year, Allegheny Energy introduced a passive treatment system where groundwater from the fly ash landfill is treated with wetlands.[3] Allegheny Energy commissioned a flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) system, designed by Babcock & Wilcox, to be installed at Hatfield's Ferry in 2006.[4][5] The equipment, which cost $700 million to install, removed 95% of sulfur dioxide (SO
2) and lowered mercury emissions at the plant when it was activated in 2009.[1]

Closure and future plans

On July 9, 2013, FirstEnergy announced they would be shutting down Hatfield's Ferry by October 9. The company decided against investing $245 million to retrofit Hatfield's Ferry in order to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS).[1] In April 2017, FirstEnergy announced they would be selling part of the power plant site to APV Renaissance Partners Opco who are proposing a natural gas power plant.[6]

gollark: This does not appear funny, and would be in the wrong channel if it was.
gollark: The whole "thoughts as viruses" idea generally calls them "memes", actually.
gollark: You can't get "4TB of GIFs" on your phone without really good compression somehow, µSD cards and phone internal storage aren't THAT big.
gollark: Hmm, yes, this is not very high-quality.
gollark: With modern video codecs you can actually fit Shrek (the movie) into 8MiB in sort-of-viewable quality.

See also

References
  1. Ferris, Steve (July 9, 2013). "FirstEnergy closing Hatfield's Ferry Power Station". Herald-Standard. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
  2. "Allegheny Energy, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Feb 11, 2010" (PDF). secdatabase.com. February 11, 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
  3. Storey, Jerry (April 22, 2001). "Hatfield's Ferry installs wetland treatment facility". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
  4. "Allegheny Energy to install scrubbers at Hatfield's Ferry Power Station". Power Engineering. July 13, 2006. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
  5. "Hatfield's Ferry Station Units 1, 2 and 3". Babcock & Wilcox. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
  6. Moore, Daniel (April 5, 2017). "FirstEnergy sells part of former Hatfield power plant to gas developer". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.