Homer City Generating Station
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 Location of Homer City Generating Station in Pennsylvania
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Center Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40°30′39″N 79°11′37″W / 40.51083°N 79.19361°WCoordinates: 40°30′39″N 79°11′37″W / 40.51083°N 79.19361°W |
| Status | Active |
| Commission date | Units 1, 2: 1969; Unit 3 1977 |
| Owner(s) | General Electric |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Bituminous coal |
| Type | Steam |
| Feeding mines | Local Pennsylvania, or Western Pennsylvania Pittsburgh seam |
| Cooling source | Two Lick Reservoir, Two Lick Creek, and Blacklick Creek |
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| Units operational | Steam turbine |
| Nameplate capacity | 2,022 MWe |
Homer City Generating Station is a 2-GW coal-burning power station near Homer City, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA. It is majority-owned by General Electric and operated by NRG Energy. Units 1 and 2, rated at 660 MWe, were launched into operation in 1969. Unit 3, rated at 692 MWe nameplate capacity, was launched in 1977. It employs about 260 people, and generates enough electricity to supply two million households.
The station is located in Center Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, occupying approximately 2,400 acres (9.7 km2). The site also includes the 1,800-acre (7.3 km2) Two Lick Reservoir, a water conservation facility which is operated by the station.
As of 2005, bituminous coal was delivered to the Homer City Generating Station by truck. Units 1 and 2 burned local Pennsylvania coal (that is cleaned on site in a coal cleaning plant) or Western Pennsylvania Pittsburgh seam coal. But now with diminishing local coal and mines to support it, the train track that runs through Indiana University of Pennsylvania has reopened and now supplies are brought in by train. A flue-gas desulfurization unit (scrubber) was added to Unit 3 which allows the unit to burn local coal.
Until its construction in the 1960s by the Pennsylvania Electric Co. (PenElec) and others, much of the property was owned by the Benamati family. In 1969, generating units #1 and #2 began operation, while unit #3 began operating in 1977.
In 2001, affiliates of General Electric bought the plant from Edison, and subsequently leased it back to them. In 2011, Edison International failed to secure financing to add pollution-control devices and announced plans to transfer full control of the plant to General Electric. On February 29, 2012, Edison took a $1 billion impairment charge related to the Homer City plant and several other coal-fired power plants. At the end of 2012 full control of the plant was transferred back to General Electric, which hired an NRG affiliate to operate the plant.
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