Country United States Commission date 1923
1954
2012 Type Combustion turbine | Status Operational Primary fuel Natural gas | |
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Location South Kearny, New Jersey Owner Public Service Enterprise Group | ||
Kearny Generating Station is a peaking power plant on the banks of the Riverbend of Hackensack River in South Kearny, New Jersey. Owned and operated by Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSEG) the power station consists of 10 simple cycle combustion turbines totaling 464 MW built It is part of the PJM Interconnection of the Eastern Interconnection grid electric transmission system.
History
Ground was broken for the original Kearny Station on July 12, 1923. Thomas A. Edison helped inaugurate and synchronize this AC station in 1925. At that time it was the largest electric generating station in New Jersey. The plant originally had six coal-fired units, which were converted to oil, all of which have subsequently been retired, the last in 2006.
Starting in 1933, a GE Binary Mercury Steam Turbine Generator system was operated at the Kearney Station: 20 Mw Mercury vapour turbine, and 30 Mw steam turbine.
Starting in 1967, the steam units were supplemented by peaker units, three of which have been since retired. There are ten simple-cycle peaker units, four of which burn natural gas and liquid fuel that went commercial in 2001 and the remaining six are only natural gas which went commercial 2012.
In October 2012, new GE LM6000 natural gas-fired units capable of producing over 270 net megawatts of power were put into use.