Electric Company Reporting

I know this article about TXU’s power plant sounds unsafe and definitely unclean to both the environment and people but you have to ask yourself, how are you benefiting from the Texas power grid up to this point.  Everyone had to start with coal and natural gas at some point.  They are now working on FutureGen projects to make the environmental impact less of a problem and we as a nation are slowly moving into new emerging cleaner power generation options.  The point is to not listen so intently to the alarmests.  Sometimes people will harp on anything to get noticed and make a few dollars.  I just ask that you take the alarmist conspiracy mentality of some with a grain of salt.

Now for the article:

NEW YORK, Jan 30 (Reuters) - TXU Corp. (TXU.N: Quote, Profile , Research) plans to restart the 750-megawatt Unit 3 at the Martin Lake coal-fired power station in Texas on Jan. 30 after fixing a tube leak, the Dallas company told Texas regulators in a report.

The company shut the unit by Jan. 29.

The 2,250 MW Martin Lake station is located in Tatum in Rusk County, about 200 miles (322 km) north of Houston. The station includes three 750 MW units numbered 1 through 3, which entered service in 1977, 1978 and 1979, respectively.

TXU in April filed an air permit application with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for a proposed 800 MW Unit 4 at Martin Lake, which would burn subbituminous coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana. If approved, TXU expects Unit 4 to enter service in 2010.
On Feb. 21, the State Office of Administrative Hearings will conduct a consolidated hearing on seven of eight of TXU’s contested new coal plant proposals, including Martin Lake 4.Separately, starting in the spring of 2009, TXU said it would begin installing selective catalytic reduction systems to Units 1-3 to reduce nitrogen oxides and sorbent injection technology to reduce mercury emissions. The units already have scrubbers to reduce sulfur dioxide.
One MW powers about 500 homes in Texas.

TXU’s unregulated TXU Power subsidiary owns and operates the station.

TXU owns and operates more than 18,000 MW of generating capacity, markets energy commodities, supplies energy to more than 2.5 million customers in Texas and transmits and distributes electricity to more than 2.9 million customers in the state.
Â

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 1st, 2007 at 8:02 am and is filed under Texas Electric Companies. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.