Point Aconi Generating Station
| Point Aconi Generating Station | |
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 Point Aconi Generating Station, Nova Scotia
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| Country | Canada |
| Location | Point Aconi, Nova Scotia |
| Coordinates | 46°19′18″N 60°19′48″W / 46.321633°N 60.329987°WCoordinates: 46°19′18″N 60°19′48″W / 46.321633°N 60.329987°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Construction began | January 1990 |
| Commission date | August 13, 1994 |
| Owner(s) | Nova Scotia Power |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Coal |
| Secondary fuel | Petroleum coke |
| Power generation | |
| Nameplate capacity | 185 MW |
The Point Aconi Generating Station is a 165 MW Canadian electrical generating station located in the community of Point Aconi, Nova Scotia, a rural community in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. A thermal generating station, the Point Aconi Generating Station is owned and operated by Nova Scotia Power Corporation. It opened on August 13, 1994 following four years of construction.
The Point Aconi Generating Station is situated on the shores of the Cabot Strait at the northeastern tip of Boularderie Island, located approximately 2 km (1.2 mi) west of the headland named Point Aconi and 2 km (1.2 mi) east of the headland named Table Head. Its civic address is 1800 Prince Mine Rd, Point Aconi, NS. The facility is located at the northern terminus of Prince Mine Rd - Highway 162.
The plant burns coal and petroleum coke, which is transported to the facility using dump trucks from a bulk ship unloading pier in Sydney Harbour near the community of Whitney Pier.
It features one boiler and one chimney 107-metres above ground.
The Point Aconi Generating Station consumes 189,000 tonnes of coal and 213,000 tonnes of petroleum coke per year and currently generates approximately 6.8% of the province's electricity and produces roughly 10.07% of the province's air pollution, including hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, hexachlorobenzene and mercury. In 2007 it created 1.465 million tonnes of greenhouse gases.
The Seaboard Generating Station opened in Glace Bay in 1931 by Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation and was the sole supplier of electricity for the Industrial Cape Breton region until its purchase by Nova Scotia Power in 1966 as part of DOSCO's ongoing asset liquidation. Nova Scotia Power opened the province's largest generating station, the Lingan Generating Station, at the height of the 1979 energy crisis to take advantage of relatively cheap Cape Breton coal being produced by the Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO).
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