Battle River Generating Station is a coal fired station

Fossil fuel power plant

A fossil-fuel power station is a power station that burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or petroleum to produce electricity. Central station fossil-fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation...

 owned by ATCO Power

ATCO

ATCO Ltd. is an Alberta based corporation with more than 7,000 employees operating across three main business divisions: Power Generation; Utilities and Global Enterprises, with companies active in industrial manufacturing, technology, logistics and energy services.ATCO Ltd...

, located near Battle River, Alberta, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. Fuel is provided by a Paintearth and Vesta coal mines coal mines operated by Prairie Mines & Royalty Ltd.

Unit 1 and 2 were retired in 2000.

Description

Unit 1 and 2 were each 32 MW units and operated from 1954 until 2000 when they were retired.
Units 3 and 4 are each 165 MW units while unit 5 is a 405 MW unit.