WA Parish Generating Station
| WA Parish Generating Station | |
|---|---|
 WA Parish viewed from Smithers Lake Road | |
 | |
| Country | United States |
| Location | Thompsons, Texas |
| Coordinates | 29°28′34″N 95°38′0″W / 29.47611°N 95.63333°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Owner(s) | NRG Energy |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Coal |
| Secondary fuel | Natural gas |
| Power generation | |
| Nameplate capacity | 3,653 MW |
| External links | |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
The WA Parish Generating Station is a 3.65-gigawatt (3,653 MW), dual-fired power plant located in unincorporated Thompsons, Texas, the station occupies a 4,664-acre site near Smithers Lake southwest of Houston in Fort Bend County and consists of two four-unit plants; one natural gas and the other coal (2,697 MW).[1] With a total installed capacity of 3,653 MW, it is the second largest conventional power station in the US.[2] NRG Energy owns and operates the plant.[1]
The Powder River Basin supplies three 115-car trainloads worth of low-sulfur coal to units 5-8 or 36,000 tons daily.[3][4]
Completed in January 2017, the post-combustion[5] Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project became largest installed on an existing power plant in the world.[6][7] The system pumps 1.6 million tons of filtered carbon dioxide (CO2) from unit 8 to the West Ranch Oil Field 82 miles away in Jackson County.[8][9] Overall as the system is powered by natural gas it will have a net effect of not releasing 785,000 tons of carbon annually.[10] The system cost approximately $1 billion.[11]
Adjacent to Parish Station is the natural gas Brazos Valley Power Plant owned by Calpine Energy which opened in 2003.[12]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Texas Sets Record for Gas Power Burn, Still Barely Enough". Power Magazine. 18 August 2015.
- ^ "S&P Global : Platts : W.A. Parish Electric Generation Station, Thompson, Texas". Online.platts.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "CenterPoint execs field questions about Sugar Land's Parish plant". Bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
- ^ "How the Biggest Power Plant in Texas Will Use Pollution to Pump Oil | StateImpact Texas". Stateimpact.npr.org. 2012-02-21. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
- ^ "Carbon Capture Suffers a Huge Setback as Kemper Plant Suspends Work". 2017-06-29. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ "World's Largest Carbon-Capture Plant to Open Soon". Scientific American. 2016-10-04. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
- ^ "Petra Nova Project| NRG Energy". Nrg.com. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ Kirk, Bryan (2 September 2014). "Parish Power Plant takes steps to clean up its operations in Fort Bend Count". Chron.com. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ https://sequestration.mit.edu/tools/projects/wa_parish.html
- ^ Wang, Ucilia (15 July 2014). "NRG's $1B Bet To Show How Carbon Capture Could Be Feasible For Coal Power Plants". Forbes.
- ^ Ryan Maye Handy (10 January 2017). "NRG begins commercial operations of $1 billion carbon capture system". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ Seshadri Kumar (2004-04-05). "Brazos Valley power plant turns on lights". Chron.com. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
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