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Coal industry (Alberta)
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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
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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 | Capital Power | Coal | [4] |
| Genesee Generating Station 3 | 2005 | 466 | 53°20′35″N 114°18′11″W / 53.34306°N 114.30306°W | 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 | 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
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "Green groups challenge Alberta over coal plant expansion", CBC News, 2 August 2011, retrieved 11 December 2014
- ^ a b c d Government of Alberta, "Electricity Statistics", Alberta Energy, retrieved 2010-08-27
- ^ ATCO Power, Battle River Coal-Fired Generating Station, retrieved 2010-08-27
- ^ Capital Power Corporation, Genesee 1 and 2, retrieved 2010-08-22
- ^ a b c d e f TransAlta, Plants in Operation, retrieved 2012-02-28
- ^ Capital Power Corporation, Genesee 3, retrieved 2010-08-22
- ^ Milner Power, H. R. Milner Generating Station, retrieved 2010-08-22
- ^ ATCO Power, Sheerness Thermal Generating Station, retrieved 2010-08-21
- ^ ATCO Power, Battle River Coal-Fired Generating Station, retrieved 2010-08-27
- ^ [1]
- ^ Data Sheet
- ^ TransAlta (March 10, 2011). "Sundance". Retrieved February 28, 2012.
- ^ Plant Description
- ^ http://maps-cartes.ec.gc.ca/indicators-indicateurs/TableView.aspx?ID=1&lang=en
- ^ TransAlta (2010-04-01), TransAlta fully retires all units of its Wabamun power-plant, retrieved 2010-09-06
- ^ "Coal", Energy Alberta, 2014, retrieved 10 December 2014
- ^ a b c "Air Management in Alberta" (PDF), Alberta Environment, January 2009, ISBN 978-0-7785-8089-8, retrieved 10 December 2014
- ^ "Carbon Capture and Storage in Canada". Deloitte.
- ^ "Alberta Energy: Carbon Capture and Storage". Energy.alberta.ca. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
- ^ "Enhance Energy Inc. | Enhanced Oil Recovery, Carbon Capture and Storage". Enhanceenergy.com. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
- ^ "Quest project Canada". Shell.ca. 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Editorial: Prentice must put policy ahead of PR on climate file", Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alberta, 23 September 2014, retrieved 10 December 2014
- ^ 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
- ^ Lockwood, Alan H. (14 February 2014), The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health
- ^ http://maps-cartes.ec.gc.ca/indicators-indicateurs/TableView.aspx?ID=1&lang=en
- ^ http://www.ec.gc.ca/ges-ghg/donnees-data/index.cfm?do=facility_info&lang=en&ghg_id=G10265&year=2011
- ^ http://sustainability.suncor.com/2013/en/environment/2012-ghg-performance.aspx
- ^ http://maps-cartes.ec.gc.ca/indicators-indicateurs/TableView.aspx?ID=1&lang=en
- ^ 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
- ^ 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