WA Parish Generating Station

WA Parish Generating Station
WA Parish viewed from Smithers Lake Road
Country United States
Location Thompsons, Texas
Coordinates 29°28′34″N 95°38′0″W / 29.47611°N 95.63333°W / 29.47611; -95.63333Coordinates: 29°28′34″N 95°38′0″W / 29.47611°N 95.63333°W / 29.47611; -95.63333
Status Operational
Owner(s) NRG Energy
Thermal power station
Primary fuel Coal
Secondary fuel Natural gas
Cooling source Smithers Lake
Power generation
Nameplate capacity 3,653 MW

The WA Parish Generating Station is a 3.65-gigawatt (3,653 MW), dual-fired power plant located in unincorporated Thompsons, Texas, the station occupies a 4,664-acre site near Smithers Lake southwest of Houston in Fort Bend County and consists of two four-unit plants; one natural gas and the other coal (2,697 MW).[1] With a total installed capacity of 3,653 MW, it is the second largest conventional power station in the US.[2] NRG Energy owns and operates the plant.[1]

The Powder River Basin supplies three 115-car trainloads worth of low-sulfur coal to units 5-8 or 36,000 tons daily.[3][4]

Completed in January 2017, the post-combustion[5] Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project became largest installed on an existing power plant in the world.[6][7] The system pumps 1.6 million tons of filtered carbon dioxide (CO2) from unit 8 to the West Ranch Oil Field 82 miles away in Jackson County.[8][9] Overall as the system is powered by natural gas it will have a net effect of not releasing 785,000 tons of carbon annually.[10] The system cost approximately $1 billion.[11]

Adjacent to Parish Station is the natural gas Brazos Valley Power Plant owned by Calpine Energy which opened in 2003.[12]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Texas Sets Record for Gas Power Burn, Still Barely Enough". Power Magazine. 18 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "S&P Global : Platts : W.A. Parish Electric Generation Station, Thompson, Texas". Online.platts.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
  3. ↑ "CenterPoint execs field questions about Sugar Land's Parish plant". Bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
  4. ↑ "How the Biggest Power Plant in Texas Will Use Pollution to Pump Oil | StateImpact Texas". Stateimpact.npr.org. 2012-02-21. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
  5. ↑ "Carbon Capture Suffers a Huge Setback as Kemper Plant Suspends Work". 2017-06-29. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  6. ↑ "World's Largest Carbon-Capture Plant to Open Soon". Scientific American. 2016-10-04. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
  7. ↑ "Petra Nova Project| NRG Energy". Nrg.com. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  8. ↑ Kirk, Bryan (2 September 2014). "Parish Power Plant takes steps to clean up its operations in Fort Bend Count". Chron.com. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  9. ↑ https://sequestration.mit.edu/tools/projects/wa_parish.html
  10. ↑ Wang, Ucilia (15 July 2014). "NRG's $1B Bet To Show How Carbon Capture Could Be Feasible For Coal Power Plants". Forbes.
  11. ↑ Ryan Maye Handy (10 January 2017). "NRG begins commercial operations of $1 billion carbon capture system". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  12. ↑ Seshadri Kumar (2004-04-05). "Brazos Valley power plant turns on lights". Chron.com. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
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