J. Robert Welsh Power Plant

J. Robert Welsh Power Plant is a 1-gigawatt (1,056 MW), coal power plant located east of Pittsburg, Texas in Titus County, Texas. It is operated by SWEPCO, a subsidiary of AEP. The plant is named after J. Robert Welsh, a former President and Board Chairman of SWEPCO.[1]

J. Robert Welsh Power Plant
J. Robert Welsh Power Plant
CountryUnited States
LocationTitus County, Texas, near Pittsburg, Texas
Coordinates33°03′18″N 94°50′22″W
StatusOperational
Commission dateUnit 1: 1977
Unit 2: 1980
Unit 3: 1982
Decommission dateUnit 2: 2016
Owner(s)SWEPCO/AEP
Thermal power station
Primary fuelPowder River Basin sub-bituminous coal
Cooling sourceWelsh Reservoir
Power generation
Units operational2
Nameplate capacity1,056 MW

History

Welsh Power Plant had three units constructed: Unit 1 began operations in 1977, Unit 2 began operations in 1980, and Unit 3 began operations in 1982. All three units were installed with boilers from Babcock & Wilcox and turbines from Westinghouse. Combined, the three units had an operating capacity of 1,674 MW.[2]

In 2012, AEP announced they were reducing output at Unit 2 to coincide with the commencement of commercial operations at John W. Turk Jr. Coal Plant in Arkansas.[3] Unit 2 was officially decommissioned in April 2016 as a part of a major retrofitting project to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for Units 1 and 3.[4] It is currently scheduled to stop burning coal in 2028.[5]

The remaining two units use sub-bituminous coal mined from the Powder River Basin shipped via rail. Close to it, there is Welsh HVDC Converter Station, a back-to-back HVDC station.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Welsh Power Plant Retrofit Project". Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  2. "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006" (Excel). Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. 2006. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  3. "AEP unit to reduce Texas Welsh 2 coal-fired unit to 60 percent". Reuters. December 21, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  4. "Welsh Power Plant Environmental Retrofit Project". SWEPCO. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  5. "More than 23 GW of coal capacity to retire in 2028 as plant closures accelerate". www.spglobal.com. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  6. Directors, Clarion Energy Content (2015-06-29). "AEP taps Siemens to modernize HVDC system Welsh in Texas". POWERGRID International. Retrieved 2022-08-05.


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