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The Manchester Street Generating Station is a 510 MW [1] gas-fired power station in the Jewelry District of Providence, Rhode Island. The station's main building is located along the Providence River and defined by three 321 foot (98 m) tall smoke stacks. [2] [3] The plant has three Siemens gas turbines and three ABB steam turbines.
In 2022, Rhode Island had a total summer capacity of 2,162 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 7,819 GWh. [2] In 2023, the electrical energy generation mix was 89.2% natural gas, 5.5% solar, 2.8% biomass, 2.1% wind, and 0.4% petroleum. [1] In May 2017, the first U.S. offshore wind farm began operating off Block Island.
At the peak of the plant’s capacity in the 1940s, there were 4,000 employees. [4] J. & P. Coats moved their base of operations to Delaware in 1951 and officially closed the plant in Pawtucket in November of 1964. The plant was then subdivided into a number of smaller industrial facilities, which remained through the 1980s. [4]
The Return Sludge Pumping Station, Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant is an historic wastewater pumping station in the Field's Point Sewage Treatment Facility on Ernest Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a rectangular hip-roofed brick and concrete structure, located adjacent to the facility's aeration tanks, and is not readily visible ...
In 2014, Boston developer CV Properties began redeveloping the structure for use by Brown University, Rhode Island College, and University of Rhode Island. [5] The project cost an estimated $220 million and received roughly $27 million and $22 million in state and federal tax credits. [6] The project was completed in 2017.
The Ernest Street Sewage Pumping Station is an historic wastewater pumping station at Ernest and Ellis Streets near the wastewater treatment facility at Field's Point in Providence, Rhode Island. The surviving elements of the station include a main pumphouse and a smaller screening house, both built in 1897-98 as part of a major effort to ...
The movie may be set in Rhode Island, but this major southern city was the actual filming location. 'Harold and the Purple Crayon' is set in Providence, but you may not recognize the skyline Skip ...
The former Andrews Mill Company Plant is located in North Smithfield's Branch Village, on the north side of Great Road (Rhode Island Route 146A) a short way east of the Route 146 highway. It is set on 32 acres (13 ha) of land bordered on the north and east by the Branch River, a tributary of the Blackstone River. The complex has three historic ...