Rock River Generating Station

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**Rock River Generating Station**

Location	Town of Beloit, Wisconsin
Owner	Wisconsin Power and Light
Fuel	Natural gas, originally Coal
Conveyance	Pipeline
Cooling Water	Rock River
Technology	Steam turbine
Combined Cycle	no
Turbines	2
Commissioned	Unit 1 1952 Unit 2 1953

Rock River Generating Station is an electrical power station located north of Beloit, Wisconsin in the town of Beloit at 827 (West Beloit Rock) W. B. R. Townline Road on the west bank of the Rock River. As of 2008, the facility is owned and operated by Wisconsin Power and Light, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliant Energy.

1 History
2 Adjacent facilities
3 Gallery
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

The facility opened in the early 1950s and consists of two at 969.6 mmBtu per hour Babcock and Wilcox cyclone boilers each with one steam turbine. Originally designed to burn Illinois Basin Bituminous coal supplied by rail car or barge, the site switched to Natural gas or lower sulfur Powder River basin coal. Additionally, a 30 MW combustion turbine was added in 1967 and two 50 MW combustion turbines were added between 1972 and 1977. As of 2000, the boilers were capable of operating on a variety of fuel sources, including natural gas, Powder River Basin coal, #2 fuel oil and tire derived fuel.^[1] Coal is apparently not burned at the site as of 2007 since the facility closed its landfill it had used for fly ash.^[2] Electricity is generated via steam turbines and process water is taken from the Rock River.

[edit] Adjacent facilities

There is an Alliant maintenance facility located adjacent to the station^[3] and Riverside Energy Center, a 603 MW combined cycle natural gas facility owned by Calpine, is also adjacent.^[4]^[5]