Genesee 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 Capital Power Corporation

Capital Power Corporation

Capital Power Corporation is an independent power-generation company based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Capital Power develops, acquires, and operates power generation from a variety of energy sources...

, located near Genesee, Alberta

Genesee, Alberta

Genesee is an unincorporated community in central Alberta, Canada, within Leduc County. It came into existence in 1905, the same year Alberta became a province.- Geography :...

, 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...

; 60 minutes south of Edmonton, Alberta. Fuel is provided by the nearby coal mine, a joint venture of EPCOR

EPCOR

EPCOR Utilities Inc., formerly known as Aqualta and Eltec, is a utility company based in Edmonton, Alberta, which manages numerous municipal water and wastewater treatment facilities throughout Alberta and British Columbia...

 and Fording. The Genesee cooling pond, is an artificial pond covering 735 hectares. The pond is topped up with water from the North Saskatchewan River

North Saskatchewan River

The North Saskatchewan River is a glacier-fed river that flows east from the Canadian Rockies to central Saskatchewan. It is one of two major rivers that join to make up the Saskatchewan River....

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The station consists of 3 units.

Description

The Poplar River Power Station consists of :

• G1 - one 390 net MW unit (commissioned in 1989)
• G2 - one 390 net MW unit (commissioned in 1994)
• G3 - one 490 net MW unit (commissioned in 2005)

The boilers are supplied by CE, Babcock and Wilcox

Babcock and Wilcox

The Babcock & Wilcox Company is a U.S.-based company that provides design, engineering, manufacturing, construction and facilities management services to nuclear, renewable, fossil power, industrial and government customers worldwide. B&W's boilers supply more than 300,000 megawatts of installed...

 and the turbines/generator are supplied by GEC and Hitatchi

Hitachi Canadian Industries

Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd. is a wholly owned, independent subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. of Japan. located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. HCI was created in 1988, and is part of the Power & Industrial division of Hitachi Ltd. Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd...

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