Keephills Generating Station
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Location | Parkland County, near Keephills, Alberta |
Coordinates | 53°26′54″N 114°27′02″W / 53.4483°N 114.4506°W |
Status | Active |
Commission date | 1983 |
Owner(s) | TransAlta & Capital Power |
Thermal power station | |
Primary fuel | Coal |
Turbine technology | Steam turbine |
Power generation | |
Nameplate capacity | 800 MW |
Keephills Generating Station is a coal fired station operated by TransAlta, located near Keephills, Alberta, Canada. Unit 3 is a low emission station, which replaced the older Wabamun 4 station.[1]
Description
The station consists of the following units:
- Unit 1 and 2 are each 400 MW unit operated and owned by TransAlta.[2]
- Unit 3 is a 450 MW unit, built as a joint venture between TransAlta and Capital Power Corporation. It came onstream in 2011.[3] This unit is a supercritical boiler manufactured by Hitachi. The unit cost about $1.98 billion to build.[4][5]
The plant has two 138.6 m (455 ft) smokestacks.
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