J-Power to retire two Shoreham turbines in New York in August 2017

August 31, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

The New York ISO issued a brief Aug. 29 notice about a recent request by J-POWER USA Generation LP for the deactivation in August 2017 of two units at the Shoreham power plant.

The units subject to deactivation are:

  • Shoreham GT 3, Nameplate Capacity 51 MW

  • Shoreham GT 4, Nameplate Capacity 51 MW

The deactivation notice was determined to be complete by the NYISO on Aug. 26. J-Power plans to retire the units, not mothball them. The notice said: “Generators have proposed to be Retired greater than 365 days after the Generator Deactivation Assessment Start Date and states that it intends to retire on August 13, 2017.”

The J-Power website says about this two-unit plant: “The Shoreham Facility is a 90.0 MW electric generating peaking facility, consisting of JET-A fuel-fired, simple cycle General Electric LM6000 PC SPRINT, located in Long Island, New York.”

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Barry Cassell is Chief Analyst for GenerationHub covering coal and emission controls issues, projects and policy. He has covered the coal and power generation industry for more than 24 years, beginning in November 2011 at GenerationHub and prior to that as editor of SNL Energy’s Coal Report. He was formerly with Coal Outlook for 15 years as the publication’s editor and contributing writer, and prior to that he was editor of Coal & Synfuels Technology and associate editor of The Energy Report. He has a bachelor’s degree from Central Michigan University.
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