Gerald Gentleman Station
Encyclopedia
Gerald Gentleman Station (GGS) is Nebraska's largest electricity generating plant. It is located at 41°04′51"N 101°08′35"W, just south of Sutherland, Nebraska
. The plant, owned and operated by Nebraska Public Power District
(NPPD), consists of two coal-fired generating units (launched into service in 1979 and 1982), which together have the capability to generate 1,365 megawatts of power.
comes from Wyoming's
Powder River Basin
by railroad, using Union Pacific and BNSF Railway
lines as well as tracks that were built for this purpose by NPPD
. At full capacity, Gerald Gentleman Station burns as much as 800 tons (800 short tons (725,747.8 kg)) of coal per hour.
.
Sutherland, Nebraska
Sutherland is a village in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the North Platte, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,129 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Sutherland is located at ....
. The plant, owned and operated by Nebraska Public Power District
Nebraska Public Power District
Nebraska Public Power District is the largest electric utility in the state of Nebraska, serving all or parts of 91 counties. It was formed on January 1, 1970, when Consumers Public Power District, Platte Valley Public Power and Irrigation District and Nebraska Public Power System merged to...
(NPPD), consists of two coal-fired generating units (launched into service in 1979 and 1982), which together have the capability to generate 1,365 megawatts of power.
Coal supply
CoalCoal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
comes from Wyoming's
Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...
Powder River Basin
Powder River Basin
The Powder River Basin is a geologic region in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming, about east to west and north to south, known for its coal deposits. The region supplies about 40 percent of coal in the United States. It is both a topographic drainage and geologic structural basin...
by railroad, using Union Pacific and BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway
The BNSF Railway is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It is one of seven North American Class I railroads and the second largest freight railroad network in North America, second only to the Union Pacific Railroad, its primary...
lines as well as tracks that were built for this purpose by NPPD
Nebraska Public Power District
Nebraska Public Power District is the largest electric utility in the state of Nebraska, serving all or parts of 91 counties. It was formed on January 1, 1970, when Consumers Public Power District, Platte Valley Public Power and Irrigation District and Nebraska Public Power System merged to...
. At full capacity, Gerald Gentleman Station burns as much as 800 tons (800 short tons (725,747.8 kg)) of coal per hour.
Water use
The waste heat is dumped into man-made Sutherland Reservoir, fed by the Sutherland Canal, which originates at Kingsley Dam on North Platte RiverNorth Platte River
The North Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River and is approximately long counting its many curves, It travels about distance. Its course lies in the U.S...
.