TXU Power’s Martin Lake Station Offline Due to Transformer Fire

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). TXU Power’s (owned by TXU Corporation (NYSE:TXU) Martin Lake Steam Electric Station suffered an outage yesterday due to a transformer issue. The station’s 793-megawatt (MW) Unit 02 was forced offline due to a fire occurring at the main transformer. The unit was taken offline safely and abatement systems were kept in service as long as temperatures would allow. Officials are projecting approximately four days of outage time and are hoping to have the unit returned to the grid by December 15th. The station’s other two 793 MW generators, Units 01 & 03, were not affected by the fire.

The Martin Lake Steam Electric Station consists of three lignite-fueled units. The lignite is supplied by nearby mines and supplemented with coal brought in from the western region of the United States. The plant is cooled by the 5,000-acre Martin Creek Lake, which is a popular site for fishing and recreation. TXU plans to add a fourth generating unit at the Martin Lake site in the next several years.

TXU Corporation operates as a holding company that manages a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy businesses in Texas. The company, through its subsidiary, TXU Energy Company, LLC, engages in electricity generation, residential & business retail electricity sales, and wholesale power activities. Through another subsidiary, TXU Electric Delivery, the company engages in regulated electricity transmission and distribution operations providing power to approximately 3 million electric delivery points. The company serves residential and small businesses, municipalities, electric co-operatives, and other distribution companies. As of December 31, 2005, TXU provided electricity and related services to 2.3 million retail electricity customers in Texas. As of the above date, the company owned or leased approximately 18,300 megawatts of generation, including 2,300 megawatts of nuclear and 5,837 megawatts of lignite/coal-fired generation capacity. In 2005, TXU Corporation’s gross profit revenue was $4.9 billion. TXU Corporation was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

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