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Gila River Power
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Description
The Gila River Power
Station is comprised of four individual combined cycle power facilities located
on 1,100 acres near Phoenix, Arizona. The station can produce approximately
2,200-megawatt of electrical power.
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Power Market
The Gila River Power
Station is located in southwestern Maricopa County in the town of Gila Bend,
Arizona, which is about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix and 30 miles south of the
Palo Verde trading hub. The Gila River plant is interconnected to the Arizona
power transmission network through two 500 kV ties and one 230 kV tie. These
interconnections provide access to energy markets throughout the southwest and
allow the plant to sell power to serve the needs of the Arizona, New Mexico,
southern Nevada and southern California markets.
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Operation
Full commercial operation
began August 2003.
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Fuel
Natural gas is delivered
to the station via a 19-mile, 30-inch pipeline, which has a dual connection to
both the El Paso natural gas main pipeline and the TransWestern natural gas
mainline. The 30-inch pipeline lateral is owned by Gila River Power Station and
is capable of providing delivery of natural gas for the maximum design
requirements of the Gila River plant.
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Technology
There are eight GE 7-FA
combustion turbines with inlet air fogging, eight Alstom heat recovery steam
generators (HRSG) with supplemental duct-firing and four GE single case, single
flow axial exhaust condensing steam turbines located at the Gila Power Station.
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