Indiantown Cogen power station
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Indiantown Cogen power station is a 395-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station near Indiantown, Florida.
According to plant owner Florida Power & Light (FPL)'s Ten Year Power Plant Site Plan (2018-2027) the coal plant is planned for retirement in First Quarter 2020, because power from the coal plant "is no longer cost-effective for FPL’s customers."[1]
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Location
The undated satellite photo below shows the power station in Indiantown, Florida, east of Lake Okeechobee in Martin County.
Background
The Indiantown Generating Plant, located in Martin County, Florida, is a 395-megawatt (net) cogeneration facility fueled by pulverized coal. Its electricity output — enough for approximately 330,000 homes — is sold under contract to Florida Power and Light Company. The plant also supplies up to 745 million pounds of steam per year to a citrus processing plant owned by Caulkins Indiantown Citrus Company. It entered commercial service in December 1995.[2]
Purchase by FPL
In October 2016 Florida Power & Light bought Indiantown Cogen power station for $451 million from Calypso Energy Holdings. FPL plans to immediately reduce the plant's operations, so that it operates no more than about 5 percent of the time, with the intention of eventually phasing the plant out of service.[3]
In 1991, the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) approved a long-term purchased-power agreement between FPL and the Indiantown Cogeneration L.P. facility that does not expire until 2025. The contract was based on the cost of power at the time; however, FPL can currently generate electricity at a much lower cost. The utility said it will save $129 million over the next nine years as a result of the purchase.[3]
After the expected addition of a new natural gas pipeline system into Florida in 2017 and with the gas-fired Okeechobee Energy Center entering service in 2019, FPL believes that the Indiantown Cogeneration plant will no longer be economic and plans to retire the facility years sooner than it otherwise would have been.[3]
Plant Details
- Sponsor: Florida Power & Light
- Owner/Parent Company: NextEra Energy Inc.
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 395.4 MW
- Units and In-Service Dates: 395.4 MW (1995)
- Location: Indiantown, Florida
- GPS Coordinates: 27.0392611, -80.5147444 (exact)
- Technologie: Subcritical
- Coal type: Bituminous
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal source:
- Number of Employees:
- Unit Retirements: Scheduled for retirement in Q1 2020
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ Ten Year Power Plant Site Plan (2018-2027), Florida Power & Light, April 2018
- ↑ "Indiantown generating plant," National Energy & Gas Transmission, Inc., accessed Nov 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "FPL announces plans to buy and phase out another coal-fired power plant, saving customers millions of dollars and preventing millions of tons of carbon emissions," FPL, June 20, 2016
- Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
- Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
- Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
- Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.
