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Keephills Generating Station

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Status
  
Active

Primary fuel
  
Coal

Province
  
Alberta

Commission date
  
1983

Type
  
Steam turbine

Location
  
Parkland County,near Keephills, Alberta

Owner(s)
  
TransAlta & Capital Power

Address
  
Range Rd 40, Kapasiwin, AB T0E 2Y0, Canada

Similar
  
Battle River Generating Station, Genesee Generating Station, H R Milner Generatin

Keephills Generating Station is a coal fired station operated by TransAlta, located near Keephills, Alberta, Canada. Unit 3 is a low emission station, which replaced the older Wabamun 4 station.

Description

The station consists of the following units:

  • Unit 1 and 2 are each 400 MW unit operated and owned by TransAlta.
  • Unit 3 is a 450 MW unit, built as a joint venture between TransAlta and Capital Power Corporation. It came onstream in 2011. This unit is a supercritical boiler manufactured by Hitachi. The unit cost about $1.98 billion to build.

    • The plant has two 138.6 m (455 ft) smokestacks.

    References

    Keephills Generating Station Wikipedia
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