Thunder Bay Generating Station
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 The Thunder Bay Generating Station |
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| Country | Canada |
| Location | Thunder Bay, Ontario |
| Coordinates | 48°21′36″N 89°13′12″W / 48.36000°N 89.22000°WCoordinates: 48°21′36″N 89°13′12″W / 48.36000°N 89.22000°W |
| Status | Active |
| Commission date | 1963 |
| Owner(s) | Ontario Power Generation |
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| Primary fuel | Coal Natural gas future |
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| Installed capacity | 326 megawatts |
The Thunder Bay Generating Station is a coal fired station owned by Ontario Power Generation, located on Mission Island on the shore of Thunder Bay, an inlet of Lake Superior. The plant provides energy to parts of Thunder Bay District in Northwestern Ontario.
Thunder Bay Generating Station began operation in 1963, with one 100 MW coal-fuelled generating unit. Two additional coal-fuelled units were added in the early 1980s, and in 1984 the original 100 MW unit was removed from service. This plant is connected to the power grid via 115 Kv and 230 Kv transmission lines.
Its two coal-fuelled boilers provide a peak output of 326 MW fuelled by low sulphur lignite coal from Western Canada and low sulphur sub-bituminous coal from the Powder River Basin in the United States.
Annual production at the plant is approximately 1.5 billion kilowatt-hours (KWh), enough energy to supply over 100,000 households for one year. The station occupies 53 ha (131 acres) on Mission Island, at the mouth of the Kaministiquia River delta on Thunder Bay. The plant's chimney is 198 m (650 ft) tall and the steam temperature is 538 °C (1,000 °F).
The plant will stop burning coal and be converted to natural gas, as part of the Ontario government's commitment to phase out all of its coal-burning power generation by 2014.[1]
Emissions
The Thunder Bay Generating Station ranks within the top 200 facility emitters as of 2009, according to Environment Canada.[3]
| Greenhouse gas | Sum (tonnes) | Sum (tonnes CO2e*) |
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| CO2 | 264,950.63 | 264,951 |
| CH4 | 3.86 | 81 |
| N2O | 4.75 | 1,472 |
| Total | - | 266,504 |
*Calculated figures for CO2e are rounded to the nearest tonne.
| Year | Emissions (tonnes CO2e) |
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| 2004 | 1,128,341 |
| 2005 | 1,159,003 |
| 2006 | 1,137,327 |
| 2007 | 712,571 |
| 2008 | 832,868 |
| 2009 | 190,366 |
| 2010 | 266,504 |
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