Harding Street Generating Station
Harding Street Station | |
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Country | United States |
Location | Indianapolis, Indiana |
Coordinates | 39°42′34″N 86°11′48″W / 39.70944°N 86.19667°WCoordinates: 39°42′34″N 86°11′48″W / 39.70944°N 86.19667°W |
Status | Operational |
Commission date | Units 1 and 2 (oil): Nov 1931 Unit 3 (oil): Sept 1941 Unit 4 (oil): June 1947 Unit 5 (coal/gas): June 1958/Dec 2015 Unit 6 (coal/gas): May 1961/Dec 2015 Unit 7 (coal/gas): July 1973/2016 Unit IC1 (oil): 1967 Units GT1–GT3 (oil): May, 1973 Unit GT4 (gas): 1994 Unit GT5 (gas): 1995 Unit GT6 (gas): 2002 |
Owner(s) | AES Indiana |
Thermal power station | |
Primary fuel | Natural gas, distillate fuel oil |
Turbine technology | Steam, gas turbine |
Cooling source | White River |
Power generation | |
Nameplate capacity | 1,196 MWe |
The Harding Street Station (formerly Elmer W. Stout Generating Station[1]) was a 12-unit, 1,196 MW nameplate capacity, gas-, coal, and oil-fired generating station[2] located at 3700 South Harding Street, Indianapolis. It is owned by AES Indiana, a subsidiary of AES (formerly known as Indianapolis Power & Light).
Environmental impact[edit]
Sulphur dioxide[edit]
With its oldest coal-fired unit dating back to 1958, the plant was ranked 12th on the United States list of dirtiest power plants in terms of sulphur dioxide emissions per megawatt-hour of electrical energy produced from coal in 2005.[3]
The new flue gas desulphurization system (FGS), also known as a scrubber, and the new stack are expected to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions by 97 percent, and NOxemissions, as well as other pollutants, by some 87 percent.[citation needed]
IPL stopped burning coal at the Harding Street facility in 2016 and retrofitted the units to natural gas.[4][5]
Coal ash ponds[edit]
On the south side of the former plant are a sequence of unlined coal ash ponds. As of 2019, there were 27 groundwater monitoring wells. Between 2016 and 2019, 24 of these were polluted above federal advisory levels of molybdenum, boron, lithium, sulfate, arsenic, antimony, selenium, and cobalt.[6]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Glischinski, Steve (2007). Regional Railroads of the Midwest. Saint Paul, MN: Voyageur Press. p. 48. ISBN 9780760323519. OCLC 68786766.
- ^ "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2008" (Excel). Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. 2008. Retrieved November 28, 2009.
- ^ Environmental Integrity Project. "Dirty Kilowatts America’s Most Polluting Power Plants." (July 2006). https://ashtracker.org/publications/Dirty_Kilowatts.pdf.
- ^ "Indianapolis Power's Harding Street plant burns its last coal | Transmission Intelligence Service". www.transmissionhub.com. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
- ^ SEC. "Ipalco Enterprises, Inc. 2020 Annual Report 10-K". SEC.report. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
- ^ Ashtracker. "Harding Street Generating Station". Ashtracker. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
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- [1] at SourceWatch
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