Kincaid Generating Station
The Kincaid Generating Station is a 1,319-megawatt Illinois coal-fired power plant located in Christian County. It is located on one of the southern arms of Sangchris Lake, which serves as the plant's cooling pond. It is owned and operated by the private-sector holding company Vistra. The plant is adjacent to an Illinois and Midland Railroad line, which delivers the coal that it burns.
History
Kincaid was commissioned by Commonwealth Edison in 1967 as a thermal generator of baseload electricity. The cost of building the plant was $100 million. The first unit, originally nameplated at 625 MW, began generating revenue power in June 1967; a parallel second unit went online in June 1968. Originally designed to burn Illinois coal, due to enactment of the U.S. federal Clean Air Act the plant, in 1995, the plant switched over to sub-bituminous, low-sulfur coal mined in the Powder River Basin in eastern Wyoming.
References
- ^ "Kincaid Power Station, US". power-technology.com. Power Technology. December 8, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ^ Illinois Atlas and Gazetteer. Freeport, Maine: DeLorme Mapping. 1991. p. 61. ISBN 0-89933-213-7.
- ^ "Kincaid Station Celebrates". ibewlocal15.org. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2023.