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The Bell Bend Nuclear Power Plant would be built near the company’s existing two-unit Susquehanna nuclear power plant. On August 30, 2016, Talen Energy formally requested the license application be withdrawn, [ 10 ] and the NRC officially accepted the application withdrawal on September 22, 2016, [ 11 ] officially cancelling the project.
Pennsylvania electricity production by type. This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, sorted by type and name.In 2022, Pennsylvania had a total summer capacity of 49,066 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 239,261 GWh. [2]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 30.0 square miles (77.7 km 2), of which 29.0 square miles (75.1 km 2) is land and 1.0 square mile (2.6 km 2), or 3.34%, is water. The Susquehanna River defines the eastern and southern borders of the township. U.S. 11 runs along the bank of the river.
Talen's generation facilities include nuclear, coal fired and natural gas power plants. The largest plant is the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, a 2,700 MWe nuclear power plant, located on the Susquehanna River seven miles (11 km) northeast of Berwick, Pennsylvania. [18]
Mar. 7—WILKES-BARRE — Talen Energy Corp. recently announced the sale of its 960-megawatt Cumulus data center campus in Berwick to Amazon Web Services for $650 million. "We are pleased to have ...
This coal was used in the adjacent Holtwood Steam Generator station. When Safe Harbor Dam was built upstream, its impoundment was then "mined" for coal as well. More efficient primary mining upstream reduced the availability of fines, and 1972 environmental laws made the dredging impractical, so coal was brought in by train. [5]
The Shippingport Atomic Power Station is located along the Ohio River in Beaver County, and it closed down on October 1, 1982. The Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station is located in Londonderry Township along the Susquehanna River. The Nuclear Generating Station suffered from a partial meltdown on March 28, 1979.
The Bell Bend Nuclear Power Plant was [1] [2] [3] a proposed nuclear power plant, which would have been built on the Bell Bend of the Susquehanna River in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania adjacent to the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station. [4] On October 10, 2008, PPL Bell Bend, LLC, a subsidiary of PPL submitted a Combined Construction and ...