Genesee Generating Station


Genesee Generating Station is a coal fired station owned by Capital Power Corporation and TransAlta Corporation, located near Genesee, Alberta, Canada; 71 km southwest of Edmonton, Alberta. Fuel is provided by the nearby coal mine, a joint venture of EPCOR and Westmoreland Prairie Resources. The Genesee cooling pond is an artificial pond covering. The pond is topped up with water from the North Saskatchewan River.
The station consists of three units.

Description

The Genesee Generating Station consists of:
The boilers were supplied by Combustion Engineering/Hitachi while the turbines/generator are supplied by GEC/Hitachi. The plant has two smokestacks, one 138 m tall, the other 121 m tall.

Conversion to natural gas

On 18 June 2019, Capital Power announced plans to expand the "duel-fuel" capabilities of all three units to running off 50% coal and 50% natural gas, with the intent to convert the power station to 100% natural gas use by 2030. Unit 2 will be converted by mid-2020 and unit 1 by spring 2021. Unit 3 will be converted to a 60/40 ratio of coal to natural gas by spring 2021 and will be converted to a 50/50 ratio at a later date.