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The AMP Fremont Energy Center (AFEC) is a natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) facility that AMP purchased in July 2011 from FirstEnergy Generation Corp., a subsidiary of Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE). AFEC will supply intermediate power to participating AMP member communities. Intermediate power is energy needed Monday – Friday during the 16 highest demand hours.
Eighty-seven AMP member communities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia are participating in the project and will receive power from the facility. In addition, the Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation, a Smyrna, Delaware-based joint action agency that is also an AMP member, is participating in the project. Central Virginia Electric Cooperative will also receive power from the facility through a purchase power agreement with AMP.
- 707-megawatt (fired) facility (with a capacity of 544 MW as an intermediate power source)
- Includes duct-firing that allows an additional 163 MW of generation during peak demand periods
- Expected to be commercially available by the end of 2011
- Projected to provide a $500 million savings to participating member communities over 30 years as compared to market
- $500 million transaction closed on July 28, 2011
In addition to AFEC, which is considered an intermediate energy resource, AMP uses natural gas units as distributed generation to help meet the peaking and standby resource needs of member communities. Six combustion turbine units are owned by AMP, located in Bowling Green, Galion and Napoleon, Ohio. Each site has one 15.5 MW unit and one 32 MW unit, providing approximately 142.5 MW of distributed generation capacity. The rest of the gas-turbine generating units, totaling 75 MW of capacity, are owned by the Ohio Municipal Electric Generation Agency (OMEGA) Joint Venture 2, with sites in Bowling Green, Hamilton and St. Marys, Ohio.
AMP generation technicians perform all operations and maintenance of all units, which are simple-cycle natural gas-fired turbines.
For emission control, AMP uses two types of state-of-the-art technology: water injection technology and Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR), both of which reduce nitrous oxide emissions. For more information on the AMP Combustion Turbine Project, use the link below.
AMP is the largest equity owner of the Prairie State Energy Campus, currently under construction in southern Illinois. The 1,600 MW advanced coal generating station is the largest coal-fired plant under construction in the U.S. Sixty-eight members of AMP will receive energy from Prairie State Energy Campus. For more information on this project, visit the Prairie State page linked below.
Smaller diesel units, owned by AMP member communities through the Ohio Municipal Electric Generation Agency (OMEGA) Joint Venture program, are used as distributed generation providing peaking power and mitigating the impact of higher power prices attibuted to times of reported congestion. Diesel units also provide back-up to the Belleville Hydroelectric Plant. For more information on these projects, use the link below.
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