Fore River Generating Station

The Fore River Generating Station is a power plant operated by Calpine Corporation since 2014 alongside Weymouth Fore River in Weymouth, Massachusetts. It operates two combustion turbines, two heat recovery steam generators and one steam turbine. The plant has a baseload capacity of 750 megawatts. The plant can run off either natural gas or ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel oil.

The current plant is on the site of the Edison Illuminating Company's Charles L. Edgar Station, built in 1923.^[1]

References

^ Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MA-34, "Edison Electric Illuminating Company, Charles L. Edgar Station, Bridge Street at Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk County, MA"

External links

Official website

42°14′32.00″N 70°57′55.93″W / 42.2422222°N 70.9655361°W / 42.2422222; -70.9655361

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[1] Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MA-34, "Edison Electric Illuminating Company, Charles L. Edgar Station, Bridge Street at Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk County, MA"

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