Bonanza power station

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Bonanza power station
Bonanza Power Plant.jpg
location
Bonanza Power Plant, Utah
Bonanza power station
Coordinates 40 ° 5 ′ 11 ″  N , 109 ° 17 ′ 11 ″  W Coordinates: 40 ° 5 ′ 11 ″  N , 109 ° 17 ′ 11 ″  W
country United States
Waters Reservoir
Data
Type coal-fired power station
Primary energy Fossil energy
fuel Hard coal
power 500 MW electric
owner Deseret Power Electric Cooperative
Project start 1980
Start of operations 1986
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The Bonanza power plant is a coal-fired power plant southeast of Vernal in the US state of Utah .

It consists of a single block with 500  MW , which was built 1980–1986 by the Deseret Power Electric Cooperative, a community of several municipal utilities. The power plant is a Foster-Wheeler - boiler equipped.

The coal comes from the Deserado Mine in northwest Colorado . It will be dismantled in civil engineering and transported to the power plant via the Deseret Power Railroad .

The Deseret Power Railroad

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deseret's Member Cooperatives
  2. NOx Control Implementation at Deseret Power, Bonanza Station ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neuco.net
  3. Deseret Western Railway (1984-2001)