Otahuhu Power Station
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Otahuhu Power Station's 404 MW combined cycle turbine. Also known as Otahuhu B.
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 Location of Otahuhu Power Station
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| Country | New Zealand |
| Location | Otahuhu, Auckland |
| Coordinates | 36°57.072′S 174°51.923′E / 36.951200°S 174.865383°ECoordinates: 36°57.072′S 174°51.923′E / 36.951200°S 174.865383°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Commission date | 2000 |
| Decommission date | 2015 |
| Owner(s) | Contact Energy |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Natural Gas |
| Type | combined cycle |
| Cooling source | Sea water cooling tower |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | Siemens V94.3A(2) |
| Nameplate capacity | 404 MW |
The Otahuhu power station site is located in Otara, Auckland, New Zealand, and holds two decommissioned plants; Otahuhu A (initially open cycle gas turbines, then synchronous compensation) and Otahuhu B (a 404 MW combined cycle). It also is the site for the proposed Otahuhu C power station. The station is owned Contact Energy.
The first generating units at Otahuhu were open cycle gas turbine Stal-Laval units, commissioned in 1968. The plant comprised four 45 MW gas turbine units.
In 1978, a further two generating units were added, twin pack units using Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines.
The Otahuhu A gas turbines were retired from electricity generation in the late 1990s, however they remained in continuous service providing reactive power to Transpower NZ, owner of the national grid. In November 2013, the generators were retired from service and decommissioned.
The combined cycle plant was commissioned in January 2000. This natural gas fired plant comprises a Siemens V94.3A(2) gas turbine in single shaft configuration. The HRSG is unfired triple pressure with reheat. Steam cycle cooling is by a hybrid wet - dry cooling tower, using sea water makeup.
At commissioning, the plant capacity was 385 MW. In 2005, upgrades to plant components (including the gas turbine compressor) resulted in an increase of plant capacity to approximately 404 MW.
The combined cycle power station ceased generation at the end of September 2015.
The Otahuhu C power station was a proposal for a 400 MW combined cycle power station. Resource consents were granted by Auckland Regional Council for the plant in 2001, but construction has never commenced.
In 2002, the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) appealed the resource consents. EDS argued that the predicted annual emissions of 1.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide would contribute to climate change via the greenhouse effect and that the consent conditions should require complete carbon offsetting by planting of new forests. The Environment Court agreed with the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change and concluded that the proposed CO2 emissions would be an "adverse effect of some consequence". The court declined to impose the forest offsetting condition due to concerns over its "efficacy, appropriateness and reasonableness".
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