Location Eden, North Carolina Commission date 1949 Type Steam,
gas turbine | Status Peak Primary fuel Coal,
natural gas Owner Duke Energy | |
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Country United States of America Address 524 S Edgewood Rd, Eden, NC 27288, USA Similar Riverbend Steam Station, Buck Steam Station, G G Allen Steam Station, Belews Creek Power St, H B Robinson Nuclear | ||
Duke energy implodes retired dan river steam station
The Dan River Steam Station is a 276-MW coal-fired electrical power plant, owned by Duke Energy. There are also three natural gas-fueled combustion turbines at the location that provide an additional 85 MW (and which began operation in 1968), and two natural gas-fueled combined cycle turbines are planned for the near future.
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History
The Dan River Steam Station began construction in 1948, and was finished the following year. Coal units 1 and 2 cost a combined $15 million and were, at the time, cutting-edge. The third unit was added six years later, and two natural gas-fueled combined cycle turbines are planned for the near future.
Addition of combined cycle turbines
In 2007, Duke Energy began to pursue permission to add two new combined cycle, natural gas-fired, 620 MW generating units to its fleet: one at the Dan River Steam Station, the other at the Buck Steam Station in Rowan County. This was done in order to diversify the company's fuel sources, expand its generating capacity, and to modernize its energy generation by moving away from less efficient, more polluting coal. After the two turbines were added, the three older coal units went offline in 2012.