Mount Storm Power Plant
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| Coordinates | 39 ° 12 ′ 3 ″ N , 79 ° 15 ′ 51 ″ W | ||
| country | United States | ||
| Waters | Mount Storm Lake | ||
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| Type | 3 × coal power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | coal | ||
| power | 1629 MW electric | ||
| owner | Dominion Resources | ||
| Start of operations | 1965 | ||
The power station Mount Storm ( English Mount Storm Power Station ) is a coal-fired power station in the east of West Virginia . The three blocks with a total of 1,629 MW gross output were built by the Virginia Electric and Power Company (VEPCO) in the 1960s and 70s . Today Mount Storm is the largest power plant of the successor company Dominion Resources .
Until the carbonization in 2006, the power plant was supplied with hard coal from the nearby Mettiki mine . In order to save taxes , the coal is mixed with diesel oil and burned as a so-called synfuel .
In 1965, the power plant was the starting point for the USA's first 500 kV high voltage line .
blocks
| block | Installed capacity (MWe) | Put into operation | Boiler manufacturer | Generator manufacturer | General contractor |
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| 1 | 551 | September 1965 | Combustion engineering | Westinghouse Electric | Stone & Webster |
| 2 | 551 | June 1966 | |||
| 3 | 553 | December 1973 | Asea Brown Boveri |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mount Storm Power Station ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2015 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.
- ↑ 29 years, coal runs out at Western Maryland mine
- ^ Memorandum of Understanding between Virginia Electric and Power Company, a Virginia corporation ("VEPCO"), and Mettiki Coal, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Mettiki").
- ↑ Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele: The Great Energy Scam . In: Time . October 4, 2003 ( time.com ).
- ↑ Our 100-year Journey
- ^ Managing the Plant: Dominion Mt. Storm. In: Power Engineering . January 4, 2005, accessed July 11, 2016 .
