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Power Plant upgrades

Image: The Power Plant and its cooling towers as it looks today Image: Artist's rendering of the Power Plant with the cooling towers removed from the roof.

Left: The Power Plant as it looks today. Right: Artist's rendering of the Power Plant with the cooling towers removed from the roof.

Capacity upgrades to the MU Power Plant will replace aging machinery with reliable, more efficient equipment.

  • Upgrading the plant's fuel-handling system will increase utility supply reliability; allow greater use of lower-cost, renewable fuels, such as biomass; and improve environmental and worker safety.
  • A new boiler is needed to replace an aging, unreliable unit. The new unit will provide steam capacity for 6 million gross square feet and will be able to burn 100 percent biomass fuel — resulting in cost saving and reduced emissions.
  • Existing cooling towers will be removed from the roof of the plant and new units will be installed on the ground. This will improve maintainability, reliability, worker safety, and aesthetics. The new units will also increase operational efficiency by 15 to 20 percent and electric output by 5 percent.

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