Poplar River Power Station
Encyclopedia
Poplar River Power Station is a coal fired station
owned by SaskPower
, located near Coronach, Saskatchewan
, Canada.
The project to build the station was launched in the fall of 1974, with the Morrison Dam being constructed between 1975 and 1977 to provide cooling water for the station. Work on the power house began in 1975. The single stack is 122 m in height. The lignite
used to power the station is suppled from the Luscar Mining Poplar River Coal Mine.
The boilers are supplied by Babcock and Wilcox
and the turbines/generator are supplied by Hitatchi
.
Fossil fuel power plant
A fossil-fuel power station is a power station that burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or petroleum to produce electricity. Central station fossil-fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation...
owned by SaskPower
SaskPower
Since 1929, SaskPower has been the principal supplier of electricity in Saskatchewan, Canada. Today, it serves more than 473,000 customers and manages $5.3 billion in assets...
, located near Coronach, Saskatchewan
Coronach, Saskatchewan
Coronach is a community in southern Saskatchewan, Canada near the US border. It was founded in 1926 by the Canadian Pacific Railway and named after Coronach, the horse who had just won the Epsom Derby in England that year...
, Canada.
The project to build the station was launched in the fall of 1974, with the Morrison Dam being constructed between 1975 and 1977 to provide cooling water for the station. Work on the power house began in 1975. The single stack is 122 m in height. The lignite
Lignite
Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal by Northern Pacific Railroad,is a soft brown fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere between coal and peat...
used to power the station is suppled from the Luscar Mining Poplar River Coal Mine.
Description
The Poplar River Power Station consists of :- one 291 net MW unit (commissioned in 1981)
- one 281 net MW unit (commissioned in 1983)
The boilers are supplied by Babcock and Wilcox
Babcock and Wilcox
The Babcock & Wilcox Company is a U.S.-based company that provides design, engineering, manufacturing, construction and facilities management services to nuclear, renewable, fossil power, industrial and government customers worldwide. B&W's boilers supply more than 300,000 megawatts of installed...
and the turbines/generator are supplied by Hitatchi
Hitachi Canadian Industries
Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd. is a wholly owned, independent subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. of Japan. located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. HCI was created in 1988, and is part of the Power & Industrial division of Hitachi Ltd. Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd...
.