Talk:Mountaineer Power Plant

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The AEP Mountaineer Plant is was is know as a 1300 mega-watt plant. The actual capacity of the plant is around 1480MW between the two turbines, and the plant averages around 1420MW. 1300MW is the net power that actually leaves the plant with the difference between the overall output and 1300MW being required to run the plant itself. It is a "closed-loop" plant in that it recycles the cooling water used, however it requires approximately 20,000 gallons per hour of "make up" water to be drawn from the Ohio River to replace the water that is lost in water vapor through the cooling tower and the precipitator/scrubber chimney.

The plant burns an average of 9000 tons of coal per day, and all of that coal now comes via barge on the Ohio River to an elaborate coal unloading and storage facility. This single boiler, dual turbine plant produces enough energy to power a city approximately the size of Columbus, Ohio.

The location of the plant is routinely given as New Haven, WV, yet sits just outside the town limits. The plant actually sits on land that was originally known as Graham Station. The next-door Phillip Sporn AEP plant and the Mountaineer Plant seem to cover most of the land of the former Graham Station, thus Graham Station is seldom used as a locale. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcgervey (talk • contribs) 16:51, 8 October 2008 (UTC)