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Tidd Plant: Brilliant: 220: Ohio Power: Coal: Retired in 1976. Was used as a demonstration for pressurized fluidized bed combustion (PFBC) for four years from 1991–1995. Toronto Power Plant: Toronto: Ohio Edison: Coal: Closed in 1993 Trash Burning Power Plant: Columbus: SWACO: Waste-to-energy: Closed in 1994 Avon Lake Power Station: Avon Lake ...
NRG also has a 44% ownership stake in the South Texas Nuclear Generating Station and a 37.5% stake in a coal power plant in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. [56] Some facilities use cogeneration and the company also owns 28 MW of solar distributed generation. [56] NRG Energy owns the Indian River Power Plant near Millsboro, Delaware.
Natural gas power stations opened at a fast rate throughout the 2010s, quickly replacing aging, dirty, and economically unviable coal-fired power stations, but by the early 2020s new plants were mostly wind and solar with only Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania continuing to open significant numbers of gas plants. [3]
The W.A. Parish Generating Station is a 3.65-gigawatt (3,653 MW), dual-fired power plant located near Thompsons, Texas.The station occupies a 4,664-acre site near Smithers Lake southwest of Houston in Fort Bend County and consists of two four-unit plants; one natural gas and the other coal (2,697 MW). [1]
Vienna Generating Station in 2019 The Vienna Generating Station is a 167 MW oil -fired electric generating plant owned by NRG Energy , located in Vienna, Maryland . [ 1 ]
Coal plants have been closing at a fast rate since 2010 (290 plants closed from 2010 to May 2019; this was 40% of the US's coal generating capacity) due to competition from other generating sources, primarily cheaper and cleaner natural gas (a result of the fracking boom), which has replaced so many coal plants that natural gas now accounts for ...
The William H. Zimmer Power Station, located near Moscow, Ohio, was a 1.35-gigawatt (1,351 MW) coal power plant.Planned by Cincinnati Gas and Electric (CG&E) (a forerunner of Duke Energy), with Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric (a forerunner of American Electric Power (AEP)) and Dayton Power & Light (DP&L) as its partners, it was originally intended to be a nuclear power plant. [1]
Homer City Generating Station is a decommissioned 2-GW coal-burning power station near Homer City, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA. It is owned by hedge funds and private equity firms and is operated by NRG Energy. [1] Units 1 and 2, rated at 660 MWe, began operation in 1969. Unit 3, rated at 692 MWe nameplate capacity, was launched in ...