VIRGINIA CITY, Va. — Dominion’s hybrid energy center near St. Paul likely won’t see any production-halting fallout from the struggling coal industry, which has resulted in several regional mine closings in the past year, center officials said last week.
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The single turbine/generator at the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center produces 610 megawatts of electricity Tuesday afternoon from the steam created in the numerous circulating fluidizing bed boilers in the background.
Steam rises from the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center Tuesday afternoon as it produces 610 megawatts of electricity from burning mined coal, biomass material and gob-pile coal.
Two employees watch numerous monitors in the control center of the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center. From here, they can watch and control most of the plant's operations throughout the day.
One of two on-duty employees watches numerous monitors Tuesday afternoon in the control center of the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center. From here, they can watch and control most of the plant's operations throughout the day.
Trucks unload coal ash in the Curley Hollow Solid Waste Management Facility at the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center Tuesday afternoon. The facility is 330 acres with 158 acres of lined landfill to accept the coal ash.
Steam rises from the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center Tuesday afternoon as it produces 610 megawatts of electricity from burning mined coal, biomass material and gob-pile coal.
Shane Young, Fossil & Hydro Operations & Maintenance Manager of the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center, describes how the power plant produces 610 megawatts of electricity while outputting roughly 98% less pollution than 1960's era coal-fired power plants.
O. Preston Sloane, director of Fossil & Hydro Station III of the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center, describes how the power plant uses mined coal, biomass and gob-pile coal to produce electricity for Dominion Virginia Power customers.
Trucks unload coal ash in the Curley Hollow Solid Waste Management Facility at the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center Tuesday afternoon. The facility is 330 acres with 158 acres of lined landfill to accept the coal ash.
Steam rises from wood chips that burned along with mined coal and gob-pile coal at Dominion Virginia Power's Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center to produce electricity.
Crushed limestone is burned along with mined coal, biomass and gob-pile coal at the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center to reduce sulfur emissions.
Coal from Virginia is used to produce energy at the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center along with gob-pile coal and biomass material.
