NRG Dover Energy Center
{{#badges: CoalSwarm}} NRG Dover Energy Center is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by NRG Energy in Dover, Delaware.
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Background
The NRG Energy Center Dover LLC, Delaware, is an 18 megawatt (MW) coal-fired cogeneration facility that provides electricity and both high- and low pressure steam to the adjacent Kraft Foods Company manufacturing facility. In addition, an 88 MW peaking plant was added to this facility in 2001.[1] It generates 16 MW of baseload and 88 MW peaking electrical energy for the East Coast’s Delmarva Peninsula, as well as electricity for the mid-Atlantic region’s PJM market, which feeds Kraft Foods, much of the city of Dover, and the State House.[2]
History
General Foods constructed the Dover coal-fueled combined heat and power plant in 1984. Kraft Foods later acquired the manufacturing facility and sold the power plant to StatOil in 1996. NRG Thermal purchased it in 2000. In 2001, NRG Thermal LLC added two General Electric LM-6000 natural gas/oil-fueled combustion-turbine electric peaking units to the facility.[3]
The NRG Dover plant sells wholesale power on the regional PJM grid, as well as provide industrial steam to adjacent operations at Kraft Foods and Procter & Gamble. Although Delaware has ordered most big, 25-megawatt and larger plants to install pollution controls, the 18-megawatt coal unit at NRG Dover escaped mandatory reforms because of its relatively small size.[4]
On November 22, 2011, NRG Dover said the coal plant will be converted to natural gas by May 2012, funded through a state-assisted, $26.5 million project of the Energy Efficiency Investment Fund.[5]
Ownership
NRG Energy Center Dover is a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Thermal LLC, an NRG Energy, Inc. company.[2]
Plant Data
- Owner: NRG Energy Center Dover LLC
- Parent Company: NRG Energy
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 18.0 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 18.0 MW (1985)
- Location: 1280 West North St., Dover, DE 19904
- GPS Coordinates: 39.148782, -75.547163
- Electricity Production: 91,826 MWh (2005)
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- CO2 Emissions: 9792.9 tons (2002); 5183 tons (2008) [6]
- CO Emissions: 24.8 tons (2002)
- NH4 Emissions: <0.001 tons (2002)
- SO2 Emissions: 1,836 tons(2002)
- SO2 Emissions per MWh: 39.99 lb/MWh
- NOx Emissions: 492 tons (2002)
- PM10 Emissions: 111 tons (2002)
- PM2.5 Emissions: 105 tons (2002)
- VOC Emissions: 2.09 tons (2002)
- Mercury Stack Emissions: 8.9 pounds (2002) [7]
| Facility ID# | Unit | Year | Op. hrs | Months | SO2 Tons | NOx Rate(lb/mmBtu) | NOx Tons | CO2 Tons | Heat Input(mmBtu) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NRG Energy Center Dover 10030 | 1 | 2002 | 8,283 | 12 | - | 0.54 | 483.9 | - | 1,289,894 |
| NRG Energy Center Dover 10030 | 2 | 2002 | 230 | 12 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 3.4 | 5,365.4 | 88,348 |
| NRG Energy Center Dover 10030 | 3 | 2002 | 187 | 12 | 0.2 | 0.11 | 3.2 | 4,427.5 | 71,838 |
| Facility ID# | Unit | Year | Op. hrs | Months | SO2 Tons | NOx Rate(lb/mmBtu) | NOx Tons | CO2 Tons | Heat Input(mmBtu) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NRG Energy Center Dover 10030 | 1 | 2009 | 7,920 | 12 | - | 0.47 | 306.3 | - | 1,309,212 |
| NRG Energy Center Dover 10030 | 2 | 2009 | 364 | 12 | 0.4 | 0.10 | 6.7 | 9,624.3 | 154,605 |
| NRG Energy Center Dover 10030 | 3 | 2009 | 91 | 12 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 1.5 | 2,192.8 | 35,212 |
Source: http://camddataandmaps.epa.gov/gdm/index.cfm?fuseaction=emissions.wizard
| Constituent | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hydrochloric Acid (Stack) - lbs | 33,000 | 32,000 | 100,000 | 140,000 | 140,000 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lead (Stack) - lbs | 2.4 | 2.5 | 6 | 2.8 | 2.5 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Meacury (Stack) - lbs | 8.2 | 8 | 6.5 | 8.8 | 8.9 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sulfuric Acid (Stack) - lbs | 11,000 | 6,800 | 9,000 | 13,000 | 11,000 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ NRG Energy, "NRG THERMAL LLC", NRG Energy website, accessed May 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "NRG Energy Center Dover", NRG Energy website, accessed May 2010.
- ↑ "NRG Dover Energy Center System Profile", NRG Energy website, accessed May 2010.
- ↑ "Dover plant switching to gas" Delaware Online, Nov. 23, 2011.
- ↑ "Dover plant switching to gas" Delaware Online, Nov. 23, 2011.
- ↑ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "EPA - Clean Air Markets - Data and Maps", U.S. Environmental Protection Agency website, accessed May 2010.
- ↑ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "EPA TRI: Chemical Report", U.S. Environmental Protection Agency website, accessed May 2010.
- ↑ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "TRI Explorer: Chemical Report", acessed May 2010.
- 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.
- NETL Coal Power Plant Database, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2007.
- AirData Query Database, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed April 2009.
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