Cardinal Power Plant
| Cardinal Power Plant | |
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| File:Cardinal Power Station from Ohio SR 7, Aug. 2024.jpg Cardinal Power Plant viewed from Ohio State Route 7 | |
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Wells Township, Jefferson County, near Brilliant, Ohio |
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| Status | Operational |
| Commission date | Units 1–2: 1967 Unit 3: 1977 |
| Owners | AEP Generation Resources (Unit 1) Buckeye Power (Units 2–3) |
| Operator | Buckeye Power |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Coal |
| Cooling source | Ohio River |
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| Nameplate capacity | 1,800 MW |
Cardinal Power Plant is a 1.8-gigawatt (1,800 MW) coal power plant located south of Brilliant, Ohio, in Jefferson County, Ohio. The power plant has three units. Cardinal is co-owned with Unit 1 owned by American Electric Power's (AEP) subsidiary, AEP Generation Resources. Units 2–3 are owned by Buckeye Power, a utility cooperative. It began operations in 1967.
History
[edit | edit source]Construction of Cardinal started in November 1963. The project was a joint venture of Ohio Power (a forerunner of AEP) and Buckeye Power. Buckeye Power obtained loans from the Rural Electric Administration and financing through Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the Ohio Company.[1] Cardinal was built adjacent to Ohio Power's Tidd Plant. The plant is named after the State Bird of Ohio, the cardinal.[2] Units 1 and 2 began commercial generation in 1967 at a cost of $131 million.[3] Unit 3 began generation in 1977 after six years of construction at a cost of $220 million.[4][5] In 2017, AEP and Buckeye Power reached an agreement for Buckeye Power to operate all three units at Cardinal.[6]
Environmental mitigation
[edit | edit source]To further reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, AEP and Buckeye Power announced in 2001 they would install selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems to complement their LO-NOx burners at Cardinal. The SCRs would decrease NOx emissions at the plant from 30% to 90%.[7] Between 2005 and 2010, flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) equipment were installed to all three units at Cardinal with Units 1 and 2 costing $300 million to construct. The FGD equipment would reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions by 98%.[8] A year after it was installed, inspectors found severe corrosion in its tank vessel. AEP negotiated a settlement with Black & Veatch, the contractor who installed the FGD equipment, to address the corrosion.[9] Instead of constructing a new chimney for Unit 3's FGD system, AEP retrofitted a cooling tower to release waste heat into the atmosphere.[10] AEP announced in 2015 that its Cardinal unit will be converted into a natural gas power plant by 2030 in order to comply with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards.[11] The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) approved of the conversion.[12]
Incidents
[edit | edit source]During construction in June 1965, three workers were killed when a pump casing fell into a well.[13]
An explosion killed one worker and injured four in June 1984.[14]
See also
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References
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External links
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- Cardinal Plant Information Archived 2018-04-07 at the Wayback Machine