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Coal-fired power plants "Coal in Alberta is generally low in sulphur and therefore burns relatively clean compared to many coals mined around the world. Leading edge technologies, such as coal gasification, coal liquefaction, carbon dioxide storage and sequestration, have the potential to allow Alberta to utilize its coal with near-zero emissions into the atmosphere.

In 2011 Alberta has eleven coal-fired plants, more than any other province in the country.[1]

List of coal-fired power plants[edit]

Sheerness Generating Station
Sheerness Generating Station

Alberta produces a large and decreasing[2] share of its electricity through coal. Over the last few years, a booming economy and the deregulation of the electricity market has led to the construction of dozens of new facilities—primarily[2] alternatives (cogeneration, waste heat recovery) and renewables (wind, biomass, biogas)—and the retirement of a dozen older coal and gas fired units.[2]

Fossil fuel[edit]

  Facilities under construction
  Planned facilities
  Decommissioned facilities (year)
Name Date Capacity (MW) Location Owner Type Ref
Battle River Generating Station Units 3-5 1969–1981 689 Forestburg ATCO Power Coal [3]
Genesee Generating Station 1&2 1989–1994 820 53°20′35″N 114°18′11″W / 53.34306°N 114.30306°W / 53.34306; -114.30306 (Genesee Generating Station) Capital Power Coal [4]
Genesee Generating Station 3 2005 466 53°20′35″N 114°18′11″W / 53.34306°N 114.30306°W / 53.34306; -114.30306 (Genesee Generating Station) Capital Power, TransAlta Coal [5][5][6]
H. R. Milner Generating Station 1972 158 Grande Cache Milner Power Coal [7]
Keephills Generating Station 1&2 1983–1984 766 Duffield TransAlta Coal [5]
Keephills Generating Station 3 2011 450 Duffield Capital Power, TransAlta Coal [5]
Sheerness Generating Station 1986–1990 780 Hanna ATCO Power, TransAlta Coal [5][8]
Sundance Power Station 1970–1980 1,566 53°30′27″N 114°33′26″W / 53.50750°N 114.55722°W / 53.50750; -114.55722 TransAlta Coal [5]
Battle River Generating Station Units 1&2 (1998) (56) Forestburg ATCO Power Coal [2][9].[10][11] [12][13][14]
Wabamun Generating Station Units 1–4 (2003–2010) (570) Wabamun TransAlta Coal [15]
Drumheller, Alberta was of Western Canada's largest coal producers during the war years."[16]
Wabamun Generating Station closed in 2011
Whitewood mine
Fording Canadian Coal Trust
Cape Breton Development Corporation
Cumberland Railway and Coal Company
Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation
HD Mining International
North Western Coal and Navigation Company
Beverly, Alberta
coal-plant phase out
Clean Air Act (Alberta) [17]
The Government of Alberta passed the Clean Air Act shortly after creating the first environment department in Canada in 1971.[17]
In 1992 the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act (Alberta) (EPEA) replaced the Clean Air Act.[17]
Clean coal technology
Carbon capture and storage
In 2008 and 2009, the Canadian federal government invested approximately $1.4 billion in Carbon Capture and Storage development in their annual budgets.[18] Alberta committed $170 million in 2013/2014 – and a total of $1.3 billion over 15 years – to fund two large-scale CCS projects that will help reduce CO2 emissions from oil sands refining.[19] In 2010 a grant agreement was signed with the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line.[20] The second is the Quest Project.[21]
Alberta Energy
In September 2013 Alberta Energy Minister Ken Hughes claimed the Alberta’s reliance on coal has dropped to 41 per cent from 65 per cent over the last 15 years. He said another 17 coal plants, representing almost a quarter of Alberta’s generating capacity, are to be shuttered in the next 17 years.[22]
In mid-September 2014 Alberta Premier Jim Prentice announced he wanted to "phase out coal-fired electricity" even faster than "the 50-year wind-down mandated by the federal government." When Prentice was environment minister, he called for a 45-year phase-out. When he left that office, that was extended to 50 years. The Alberta Coal Phase-Out Group suggests a phase out could be accomplished in ten years.[23]
Coal gasification
Great Plains Synfuel Plant and Weyburn-Midale Project — Canada

Weyburn-Midale is a coal gasification operation that produces synthetic natural gas and various petrochemicals from coal. This project captures about 2.8 Mt/a of CO2 from its coal gasification plant located in North Dakota, USA, transported by pipeline 320 km across the Canadian border and injects it into depleting oil fields in Saskatchewan where it is used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

Silent epidemic [24][25]
Wabamun Generating Station
Whitewood mine
Fording Canadian Coal Trust
Cumberland Railway and Coal Company
Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation
HD Mining International
North Western Coal and Navigation Company
Beverly, Alberta
TransAlta
Electricity
Alberta Energy
Energy Resources Conservation Board
Battle River Generating Station
Genesee Generating Station
H. R. Milner Generating Station
Keephills Generating Station
Sheerness Generating Station
Sundance Power Station
List of generating stations in Alberta
ATCO
Direct Energy
Argus Media
Elkford
Coal seam fire
Coal dust
Fossil-fuel power station
Greenhouse gas
Sundance Power Station is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases of any facility in Canada, with 10,243,740 tonnes of CO2 equivalent released in 2012.[26] Sheerness facility emissions for 2011 were 5,578,018 tonnes CO2 equivalent.[27] This compares to Suncor's oil sands projects which released CO2 equivalent of 20,8 million tonnes in 2012, compared to 18.8 million tonnes in 2011.[28] Syncrude's Mildred Lake Plant Site in the oil sands was the largest greenhouse gas emitter in Canada emitting 12,359,420 tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2012.[29] "In 2010, oil sands production made up less than 0.2 per cent of global GHG emissions, or seven per cent of Canada’s emissions." " U.S. emissions from transport and for generating electricity from coal each total about 2,000 million tonnes of CO2 yearly."[30]
Keephills 3 generator: "Emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrous oxides (NOx) and mercury will be reduced by 60 to 80 per cent in comparison to the same amount of power produced by the Wabamun units. The facility also features a mercury emission control system, using activated carbon injection technology, and a high efficiency particulate collection system, using fabric filters (baghouse) to capture 99.9 per cent of particulate emissions."[31]
The regulatorAlberta Utilities Commission H.R. Milner plant, operated by Maxim Power Corp. near Grande Cache[1]


List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions
List of countries by electricity production from renewable sources
List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions
Alberta
Advanced Plant Management System
Air preheater
Anaerobic digestion
Availability factor
Base load power plant
Black start
Boiler blowdown
Pulverized coal-fired boiler
Coal
Coal gasification
Coal liquefaction
Boiler#Supercritical_steam_generator

See Also[edit]


References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Green groups challenge Alberta over coal plant expansion", CBC News, 2 August 2011, retrieved 11 December 2014
  2. ^ a b c d Government of Alberta, "Electricity Statistics", Alberta Energy, retrieved 2010-08-27
  3. ^ ATCO Power, Battle River Coal-Fired Generating Station, retrieved 2010-08-27
  4. ^ Capital Power Corporation, Genesee 1 and 2, retrieved 2010-08-22
  5. ^ a b c d e f TransAlta, Plants in Operation, retrieved 2012-02-28
  6. ^ Capital Power Corporation, Genesee 3, retrieved 2010-08-22
  7. ^ Milner Power, H. R. Milner Generating Station, retrieved 2010-08-22
  8. ^ ATCO Power, Sheerness Thermal Generating Station, retrieved 2010-08-21
  9. ^ ATCO Power, Battle River Coal-Fired Generating Station, retrieved 2010-08-27
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ Data Sheet
  12. ^ TransAlta (March 10, 2011). "Sundance". Retrieved February 28, 2012.
  13. ^ Plant Description
  14. ^ http://maps-cartes.ec.gc.ca/indicators-indicateurs/TableView.aspx?ID=1&lang=en
  15. ^ TransAlta (2010-04-01), TransAlta fully retires all units of its Wabamun power-plant, retrieved 2010-09-06
  16. ^ "Coal", Energy Alberta, 2014, retrieved 10 December 2014
  17. ^ a b c "Air Management in Alberta" (PDF), Alberta Environment, January 2009, ISBN 978-0-7785-8089-8, retrieved 10 December 2014
  18. ^ "Carbon Capture and Storage in Canada". Deloitte.
  19. ^ "Alberta Energy: Carbon Capture and Storage". Energy.alberta.ca. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
  20. ^ "Enhance Energy Inc. | Enhanced Oil Recovery, Carbon Capture and Storage". Enhanceenergy.com. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
  21. ^ "Quest project Canada". Shell.ca. 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
  22. ^ Weber, Bob (4 September 2013), Doctors urge Alberta to phase out coal plants, citing respiratory illnesses, Edmonton: The Globe and Mail, retrieved 10 December 2014
  23. ^ "Editorial: Prentice must put policy ahead of PR on climate file", Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alberta, 23 September 2014, retrieved 10 December 2014
  24. ^ Pratt, Sheila (20 September 2014), Closing coal plants would save Albertans millions in health costs: U.S. expert, Edmonton: Edmonton Journal, retrieved 10 December 2014
  25. ^ Lockwood, Alan H. (14 February 2014), The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health
  26. ^ http://maps-cartes.ec.gc.ca/indicators-indicateurs/TableView.aspx?ID=1&lang=en
  27. ^ http://www.ec.gc.ca/ges-ghg/donnees-data/index.cfm?do=facility_info&lang=en&ghg_id=G10265&year=2011
  28. ^ http://sustainability.suncor.com/2013/en/environment/2012-ghg-performance.aspx
  29. ^ http://maps-cartes.ec.gc.ca/indicators-indicateurs/TableView.aspx?ID=1&lang=en
  30. ^ Forrest, Jack (5 October 2012), "Carbon from oil sands growing, but not 'game over': Want a real climate villain? Try coal", Alberta Oil, retrieved 11 December 2014
  31. ^ http://www.capitalpower.com/MediaRoom/newsreleases/2011-news-releases/Pages/090111.aspx

External links[edit]

Category:Coal-fired power stations in Alberta Category:Parkland County

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