Emissions Reduction Projects
FPD Power Development is approaching a milestone in its work as part of an ongoing seven-year effort to ensure the current and future air quality in the Twin Cities metro area and Minnesota.
Xcel Energy, Black Dog
The original Unit 1 boiler/turbine and the Unit 2 boiler, installed in the 1950s and fired on coal, recently were replaced with a natural gas combined-cycle unit (Unit 5), which includes a natural gas-fired turbine-generator combined with a heat recovery steam generator. Exhaust heat from Unit 5 powers the Unit 2 steam turbine. The repowering project, completed in summer 2002, boosts output from the two original units by more than 100 megawatts, and results in greater operating efficiency and cleaner power production.
Great River Energy, Pleasant Valley
Pleasant Valley Station is Great River Energy's newest natural-gas fired combustion turbine plant, with the first two units operational in 2001, and the third in 2002. The power plant uses three large simple-cycle combustion turbines to produce approximately 420 megawatts of electricity on a hot summer day and more than 480 megawatts on a cold winter day.
Xcel Energy, A.S. King
The King plant was completely rehabilitated from 2004-2007 as part of Xcel Energy's Metro Emissions Reduction Project. Improvements included steam turbine replacement, steam generator repairs and modifications, coal handling upgrades and the addition of state-of-the-art air quality control equipment. The improvements were targeted at significantly reducing air emissions and restoring the King unit to its original electricity output capacity, while extending the life of the plant.
Xcel Energy, High Bridge
This project involves replacing the existing High Bridge facility with a natural 390-megawatt gas combined-cycle unit that includes two combustion turbines, corresponding heat recovery generators and a new steam turbine. The equipment will be installed in a new building on the existing site and the original plant will be demolished. Projected in-service date for this project is May 2008.
Xcel Energy, Blue Lake
Each of the two new turbines would be fired by clean-burning natural gas and would have a summer capacity of approximately 160-megawatts. Currently, the Blue Lake plant has four units fired by oil and a capacity of 225-megawatts; the Angus Anson plant has two units that can be fired by either natural gas or oil and a capacity of 223-megawatts. "The two new turbines are needed to ensure a reliable supply of power during peak demand periods in 2005 and thereafter,"
Great River Energy, Cambridge
Great River Energy has constructed a 150-megawatt natural gas-fired peaking power generation facility at an existing site near Cambridge, Minnesota. The facility began providing peaking power to Great River Energy's 28 member distribution cooperatives, including nearby East Central Energy, beginning in April 2007.
Xcel Energy, Riverside
We are currently under construction with this new 390-megawatt major metro project. This project involves replacing two coal-fired units at the Northeast Minneapolis plant with a natural gas combined cycle arrangement. Projected in-service date for this project is May 2009.
Faribault Energy Park (FEP)
Faribault Energy Park (FEP) is located in Faribault, Minnesota. FEP is being constructed in two phases, with a single GE-7FA 160 MW combustion turbine in simple cycle and eventual conversion to combined cycle. FPD Power Development completed the simple cycle phase of the energy center in 2005.