Atikokan Generating Station

Atikokan Generating Station
Country Canada
Location Atikokan, Ontario
Coordinates
Status Active
Commission date 1985
Owner(s) Ontario Power Generation
Power station information
Primary fuel Coal
Power generation information
Installed capacity 230 megawatts

Atikokan Generating Station is a coal fired station owned by Ontario Power Generation (OPG), located 8 km (5 mi) north of Atikokan, 190 km (118 mi) west of Thunder Bay, in Northwestern Ontario. The plant employs 90 people. The Atikokan Generating Station began operation in 1985 and underwent an overhaul in the autumn of 2003.

It has one coal fuelled generating unit with low nitrogen oxide (NOx) burners, providing a peak output of 230 MW fuelled by low sulfur lignite coal from Western Canada. It will be the first generating station to be converted by OPG to be fuelled by bio mass. The plant is scheduled to burn wood pellets instead of coal by 2012.[1] Annual production at the plant is approximately 900 million kilowatt-hours (kWh), enough energy to supply approximately 70,000 households for one year. The station occupies 3 km2 (741 acres) north of Atikokan, Ontario. The plant's chimney is 145 m (476 ft) tall and the steam temperature is 538 °C (1,000 °F).

This plant is connected to the provincial power grid via several 230,000 volt transmission lines.

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Emissions

Greenhouse Gases (2009)[2]
Greenhouse gas Sum (tonnes) Sum (tonnes CO2e*)
CO2 199,602.00 199,602
CH4 8.01 168
N2O 2.01 623
Total - 200,393

*Calculated figures for CO2e are rounded to the nearest tonne.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ontario coal-fired power plant to switch to biomass", CBC News, January 21, 2009. Retrieved January 21, 2009.
  2. ^ http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ghg/onlinedata/facility_info_e.cfm?ghg_id=G10016&year=2009

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