Kentucky is Planning on Utilizing Coal for New Power Generation Coal-Fired Generation on the Up and Up in Kentucky

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Home to a strong coal mining history, Kentucky is more and more being considered as the site for new or expanding coal-fired power plants. Right now, there are eight power stations with fourteen units under development or being constructed that will utilize solid or gasified coal to supply about 4,700 megawatts (MW) to the grid in Kentucky.

Two of the plants that are being planned are expected to utilize integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) technology. They will gasify the coal, which will then be used to fuel combined-cycle (C-C) units, each with two combustion turbine/generator (CT) sets with two duct-fired heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) and a single steam turbine/generator. Kentucky Power Company (Frankfort, Kentucky), a subsidiary of American Electric Power Company (NYSE:AEP ) (Columbus, Ohio) is planning such a plant near Vanceburg in Lewis county, Kentucky and Cash Creek Generation LLC, a subsidiary of privately held the ERORA Group LLC (Louisville, Kentucky), is developing an IGCC project near Henderson, Kentucky.

East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) (Winchester, Kentucky) is installing two 278-megawatt atmospheric circulating fluidized-bed (ACFB) units. The EKPC has Stanley Consultants, Incorporated (Muscatine, Iowa) involved with these installations at J K Smith Station near Trapp in Clark county, Kentucky, the other unit will be installed at its Spurlock Station near Maysville, in Mason county, Kentucky. EKPC is expected to buy power from a 110-megawatt plant under development by a private energy producer, Estill County Energy Partners LLC, a subsidiary of Fox Trot Corporation (Lexington, Kentucky). This plant will be built near Irvine, Kentucky.

Two companies are developing 750 MW conventional pulverized coal units with BACT (best available control technologies) to meet environmental emission requirements. Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE:BTU ) (Saint Louis, Missouri) plans to build a 1,500 MW Thoroughbred Energy Campus near Central City in Muhlenberg county, Kentucky with the assistance of Utility Engineering (Amarillo, Texas) and its parent Zachry Construction (San Antonio, Texas). Louisville Gas & Electric Company (Louisville, Kentucky), a subsidiary of E.ON AG (EON) (Düsseldorf, Germany), with the assistance of Cummins and Bernard, Incorporated (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and Black & Veatch, Incorporated (Kansas City, Missouri), will install a second coal-fired unit at the Trimble County plant near Bedford, Kentucky.

Kentucky Mountain Power LLC, a subsidiary of EnviroPower LLC (Houston, Texas), is constructing a two-unit 500 MW unit utilizing ACFB Boilers with the assistance of Nesbitt Engineering, Incorporated and Zachry Construction.

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