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H. L. Spurlock Station is a fossil fuel generating electricity generating station owned by East Kentucky Power Cooperative and is the largest generation facility in EKPC's system. The 585MWe Unit 2 is the flagship and largest single generating unit owned by EKPC. It is located approximately 5 miles northwest of Maysville, Kentucky along the Ohio River.

In addition to the electricity generation, a portion of the steam generated is sold to the neighboring Temple Inland plant to be used as process steam in linerboard manufacture.

H.L. Spurlock station has 4 coal-fired generating units.

Unit 1 is a 325MWe Babcock and Wilcox pulverized coal boiler. It is equipped with side-fired low NOx burners. It is fed with 8 Babcock and Wilcox ball pulverizers. Unit 1 has a full array of backend equipment consisting of a Ljungstrom air pre-heater followed by an Alstom SCR, Alstom dry electrostatic precipitator, which were retrofit and went into operation in 2001. In May 2009 a new Alstom scrubber and wet electrostatic precipitator went online to remove SO2, particulate and SO3 emissions.

Unit 2 is a 585MWe Combustion Engineering (now Alstom) tangentially fired pulverized coal boiler fed with 5 Raymond roller mills. Backend equipment consists of 2 air-preheaters, an Alstom SCR and an Alstom dry electrostatic precipitator which were retrofit in 2002. On Oct 10, 2008, a new Alstom scrubber and wet electrostatic precipitator were brought online. This equipment removes over 99% of SO2 emissions and reduces SO3 emissions to 0.9ppm.

Unit 3 is a 293MWe Alstom circulating fluidized bed boiler and was completed in 2005. It is one of the cleanest burning coal units in the United States due to the unique design of circulating bed boilers, which burn limestone in combination with coal at lower temperatures to remove SO2 and NOx emissions during the burning process. Unit 3 is outfitted with an Alstom flash dry absorber (baghouse) to collect the fly ash which is stored in silos to be trucked offsite to a landfill.

Unit 4 is a 293MWe Alstom CFB boiler and is an exact duplicate of Unit 4, sharing the ash disposal silos with Unit 3 until a new ash silo is completed in Jan. 2010.