Cinergy/PSI Dedicates Modernized Noblesville Power Plant.Business Editors PLAINFIELD, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2003 It's been operating for more than 50 years as a coal-fired power plant on Riverwood Avenue in Noblesville, but Cinergy/PSI's Noblesville Generating Station began a new era of service this month as a modernized mod·ern·ize v. mo·dern·ized, mo·dern·iz·ing, mo·dern·iz·es v.tr. To make modern in appearance, style, or character; update. v.intr. To accept or adopt modern ways, ideas, or style. , natural gas-fired plant. Today U.S. Assistant Energy Secretary Vicky Bailey, Indiana Lieutenant Governor lieutenant governor n. Abbr. Lt. Gov. 1. An elected official ranking just below the governor of a state in the United States. 2. The nonelective chief of government of a Canadian province. Joe Kernan For the Armagh Gaelic football player and manager, see . Joseph Eugene Kernan (born April 8, 1946), widely known as Joe Kernan, is an American politician who became the Governor of Indiana on September 13, 2003 upon the death of Frank O'Bannon. , Hamilton County Hamilton County is the name of a number of counties in the United States of America, named for Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury (except as indicated below):
James Beeland Rogers, Jr. (born 19 October 1942) is a co-founder, along with George Soros, of the Quantum Fund. in dedicating the repowered Noblesville Generating Station. Construction has been underway since January 2002 to convert the plant to natural gas and expand its ability to generate power. The improvements will triple the plant's electric generating capacity while reducing its overall emissions to the environment. State regulators granted Cinergy/PSI approval in December 2001 to convert the plant from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas. The plant serves Indiana customers and demand on the PSI system has been growing each year. "Eighteen months is a remarkably short period of time to complete a project such as this," said PSI President Doug Esamann. "Many employees and construction workers came together to make it possible for this plant to be ready for summer when demand for power is at its highest. In addition to the added power, this project reduces plant emissions and nearly eliminates any thermal impact on the White River. We've taken a 50-year-old plant, expanded it and improved the environment at the same time." Built in 1950, Noblesville Station was originally a coal-fired plant with two steam turbines Steam turbine A machine for generating mechanical power in rotary motion from the energy of steam at temperature and pressure above that of an available sink. By far the most widely used and most powerful turbines are those driven by steam. that generated approximately 90 megawatts of electricity. Cinergy/PSI decommissioned the coal-burning portion of the plant and installed three new combustion turbines that run on natural gas. The old turbines were retained, but to increase the plant's efficiency, they now run on steam supplied from the new turbines. Such exhaust heat Exhaust Heat is a Super Famicom game that simulates the season and career of a Formula One superstar. There are over a dozen courses around the world to race and all of them are likenesses of real Formula One tracks (including realistic looking advertisements where the audience is usually wasted, but capturing it with "heat recovery steam generators A heat recovery steam generator or HRSG is a heat exchanger that recovers heat from a hot gas stream. It produces steam that can be used in a process or used to drive a steam turbine. " to repower the old turbines makes the plant very efficient. In fact, the converted plant will be 40 percent more efficient in converting energy to electricity than the existing units. The total electric generating capacity of the modified station will be approximately 300 megawatts. The facility is expected to operate about 50 percent of the year, primarily during the day and especially during hot periods when electric demand is high. Cinergy Corp. is the parent company of PSI Energy Inc., Indiana's largest electric supplier serving more than 700,000 customers in portions of 69 of the state's 92 counties. |
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