Natural Gas-Fired Plants
Explained simply, gas-fired plants are based on aircraft jet engine technology. Like coal-fired plants, the natural gas fuel is burned. But instead of steam, the hot compressed exhaust gases expand through a turbine to generate electricity.
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Bennett Mountain The 164-megawatt Bennett Mountain Power Plant located in Mountain Home, about five miles east of the Evander Andrews Complex, is a simple cycle combustion turbine power plant. Construction was completed in 2005 and the plant produced its first electricity for the grid in late February 2005. Both the Danskin and Bennett Mountain plants are "peaking" generating resources, for use primarily in meeting short-duration demands for electricity during hot summer afternoons when air conditioning and irrigation loads reach their highest point. |
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Danskin Power Plant Housed with the Evander Andrews Complex, the 261-megawatt Danskin Power Plant consists of one, 171-MW simple cycle combustion turbines, using technology similar to an aircraft jet engine. On an airplane, a turbine engine is used to create thrust to push it through the sky. In a power plant application, that thrust turns an electrical generator to produce electricity. The plant was constructed to help Idaho Power have adequate generating resources to meet present and future energy needs. |
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Langley Gulch Power Plant Project To fulfill Idaho Power’s commitment to meet growing electricity demands, the company is adding a new generation resource. Learn more. |
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