J. Robert Welsh Power Plant

J. Robert Welsh Power Plant
J. Robert Welsh Power Plant
Country United States
Location Titus County, Texas, near Pittsburg, Texas
Coordinates 33°03′18″N 94°50′22″W / 33.05500°N 94.83944°W / 33.05500; -94.83944Coordinates: 33°03′18″N 94°50′22″W / 33.05500°N 94.83944°W / 33.05500; -94.83944
Status Operational
Commission date Unit 1: 1977
Unit 2: 1980
Unit 3: 1982
Decommission date Unit 2: 2016
Owner(s) SWEPCO/AEP
Thermal power station
Primary fuel Powder River Basin sub-bituminous coal
Cooling source Welsh Reservoir
Power generation
Units operational 2
Nameplate capacity 1,056 MW

J. Robert Welsh Power Plant is a 1-gigawatt (1,056 MW), coal power plant located northwest of Pittsburg, Texas in Titus County, Texas. It is operated by SWEPCO, a subsidiary of AEP. The plant is named after J. Robert Welsh, a former President and Board Chairman of SWEPCO.[1]

History

Welsh Power Plant had three units constructed: Unit 1 began operations in 1977, Unit 2 began operations in 1980, and Unit 3 began operations in 1982. All three units were installed with boilers from Babcock & Wilcox and turbines from Westinghouse. Combined, the three units had an operating capacity of 1,674 MW.[2]

In 2012, AEP announced they were reducing output at Unit 2 to coincide with the commencement of commercial operations at John W. Turk Jr. Coal Plant in Arkansas.[3] Unit 2 was officially decommissioned in April 2016 as a part of a major retrofitting project to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for Units 1 and 3.[4]

The remaining two units use sub-bituminous coal mined from the Powder River Basin shipped via rail. Close to it, there is Welsh HVDC Converter Station, a back-to-back HVDC station.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Welsh Power Plant Retrofit Project". Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006" (Excel). Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. 2006. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ "AEP unit to reduce Texas Welsh 2 coal-fired unit to 60 percent". Reuters. December 21, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Welsh Power Plant Environmental Retrofit Project". SWEPCO. Retrieved January 11, 2018.



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