Genesee 4 & 5 Generation Stations

Province: Alberta

City/Region: West of Edmonton

Image Credit: Capital Power

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Project Type: Natural Gas

Industry Sector: Energy

Project Amount: $1.4 billion

Date of Completion: 2018

Funding Source: Private

Private Funding: $1.4 billion

Previous Rankings

201839
201735
201635

About The Project

This proposed combined cycle natural gas-fired generation facility is a joint venture project between Capital Power and ENMAX. The facility will be located on a brownfield site within the boundaries of Capital Power’s existing Genesee Generating Station. The project will utilize the latest high-efficiency turbine technology and will have a generation capacity of approximately 1,060 MW consisting of two 530-MW units. The facility consists of two one-on-one, single shaft power islands, each incorporating a 501 J-class natural gas turbine, steam turbine, generator, and heat recovery steam generator.

All major regulatory approvals have been granted from the Alberta Utilities Commission and Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (now Alberta Environment and Parks). Full notice to proceed decision deferred. Continuation and timing of the project will be considered once more Alberta market structure certainty exists and new generation is required to balance supply and demand. The project’s design configuration allows for construction to occur in two phases with staged completions. The commercial agreements include flexibility on the timing of the in-service date for the project to be timed to correspond to the need for new power generation in the Alberta market. Towards the end of the decade in 2020, nearly 1,000 megawatts of coal generation is scheduled to retire.

Project Owner: Enmax and Capital Power Corp.

Project/Construction Manager: Capital Power

Turbine Supplier: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems

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