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I thought of jaykay the second I saw that
and I cried
No they are just adding a second peaking plant to the one they already have there which is a GE7EA. Since these are just stationary jet engines and do not require water for their generating process the warm water plume will no longer be there..Does anyone know if there will still be the need to use river water to cool something there by continuing to produce a warm water discharge which could leave the fishing in the Heskett area unchanged?
No they are just adding a second peaking plant to the one they already have there which is a GE7EA. Since these are just stationary jet engines and do not require water for their generating process the warm water plume will no longer be there..
Unfortunately this plant must not have been producing cheap enough power because they are replacing it with a cheaper source of power using natural gas. The maintenance of the coal plant must have been the reason it got so costly to run. These smaller coal plants are not as cheap to run with all the environmental requirements. Anyone know if this plant ran lignite or powder river basin coal?Bummer because of the loss of jobs and cheap reliable electricity. Its not just the plan site, but the railroad, coal mine, etc. are impacted as well. Man I hope you arent one of those people that think the country's energy demand can be sustained on Wind and Solar alone.
Imagine what would happen if the country lost electricity for just one day......
Bad deal. That mine is struggling already, not a good future ahead for coal.Lignite, railed in from the Dakota Westmoreland Beulah Mine.
Bad deal. That mine is struggling already, not a good future ahead for coal.Lignite, railed in from the Dakota Westmoreland Beulah Mine.
Size isn't everything:;:smokin but just by the sheer scale of the difference between the two plants now is pretty substantial! Red is the 88 MW peaking plant they have now vs all the rest of the main plant.Unfortunately this plant must not have been producing cheap enough power because they are replacing it with a cheaper source of power using natural gas. The maintenance of the coal plant must have been the reason it got so costly to run. These smaller coal plants are not as cheap to run with all the environmental requirements. Anyone know if this plant ran lignite or powder river basin coal?
You better hope that all coal fired plants never get converted to gas. Coal is a contracted price for years at a time, electricity prices can remain stable for long periods of time. Gas is traded on the open market, more demand higher price. Your electricity has the potential To sky rocket and will never be as cheap as it is now.Why's it a bummer? We have more than enough cleaner burning
natural gas to replace it.
But if gas skyrockets we will see even more gas captured from the oil wells that are drilled. Increased prices would also make a boom for drilling gas wells. If I was in the coal industry I would try to jump on the gas bandwagon sooner rather than later.You better hope that all coal fired plants never get converted to gas. Coal is a contracted price for years at a time, electricity prices can remain stable for long periods of time. Gas is traded on the open market, more demand higher price. Your electricity has the potential To sky rocket and will never be as cheap as it is now.
Natural gas is considered a fossil fuel. Just a cleaner one. No?
Is the heskett power plant that pipes the co2 underground? I remember reading an article of a power plant in north Dakota that was the first in the nation to pipe co2 gas under ground into old oil wells then when the well couldn't hold anymore co2 it would be capped off. Would be great to see that kind of system utilized when they retrofit this power to use natural gas. Zero emissions would be great especially since we have the technology to do it already here in north Dakota
Antelope Valley Generating Station 8 miles north of Beulah. The CO2 line goes to Canada It is pushed in one well to force or recover more oil out of a near-by well. Basin Electric owns AVS and Dakota Gas. DGC used to service a pipeline to Chicago with gas made from coal. Obama was from Chicago and he never knew North Dakota heated his city.....with coal.
I believe there is cheaper gas from the Bakken going into that pipeline. Dakota Gas is now Dakota Fertilizer. They also make diesel exhaust fluid.
You better hope that all coal fired plants never get converted to gas. Coal is a contracted price for years at a time, electricity prices can remain stable for long periods of time. Gas is traded on the open market, more demand higher price. Your electricity has the potential To sky rocket and will never be as cheap as it is now.
Is this plant north of beulah the one that is used in the production of liquid natural gas i read that to produce liquid natural gas they use lignite coal to produce the liquid natural gas.