Chalk Point Generating Station
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Chalk Point Generating Station in 2007
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Eagle Harbor, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 38°32′37″N 76°41′19″W / 38.54361°N 76.68861°WCoordinates: 38°32′37″N 76°41′19″W / 38.54361°N 76.68861°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Owner(s) | NRG Energy |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | coal (Units 1 & 2) |
| Secondary fuel | Oil and natural gas (Unit 3 & 4) |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 2 × 364 MWe (Units 1 & 2) 2 × 659 MWe Unit 3 & 4) |
The Chalk Point Generating Station is a 2,647-MWe electricity-generating plant owned by NRG Energy, located near the tiny incorporated town of Eagle Harbor, Maryland, United States, on the Patuxent River.
The facility consists of several units:
The site also contains six combustion turbines owned and operated by Mirant.
The combined name-plate capacity of all seven combustion turbines is 601 MWe.
The Chalk Point plant began service in 1964. All of the GenOn generating units at the Chalk Point Generating Station were built by the Potomac Electric Power Company, which sold them to the Southern Company in December 2000 as a result of the restructuring of the electricity generating industry in Maryland. The station was included in the Mirant spin-off from the Southern Company in April 2001. Mirant was merged into GenOn Energy in 2010, and GenOn merged into NRG in 2012.
Coal is delivered to the Chalk Point generating station by CSX Transportation trains via the Herbert Subdivision, a former Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) line. This line is accessed via the Amtrak Northeast Corridor line, with coal being delivered from trains staged at the CSX Benning Yard (also former PRR facilities) in Anacostia, Washington, DC. These trains are brought from the coal fields via the CSX Metropolitan Subdivision and Cumberland Subdivision down the Potomac River valley from Cumberland, Maryland.
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