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JEA's Brandy Branch Generating Station in western Duval County. The third natural gas-fueled unit was completed Oct 12, 2001, bringing the total capacity of the plant to more than 500 megawatts. The environmental performance of the GE units burning natural gas makes Brandy Branch one of the cleanest electric generation plants in the world. JEA purchased thousands of acres of land adjacent to the plant site to act as a buffer between the facility and future neighbors. |
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Fuel domes at JEA’s Northside Generating Station. The photo of the fuel domes is almost misleading as to the actual size of these structures. Each dome is approximately 400 feet in diameter and holds 60,000 tons of fuel. The domes keep the fuel dry to increase efficiency of the plant and eliminate fuel particles being washed by rain into the surrounding marshlands. They also help to nearly eliminate fugitive dust emissions from the fuel piles. They are the largest fuel storage domes in North America. |
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One of the panels in the solar photovoltaic array mounted on the roof of JEA's downtown parking facility. The array was installed as part of JEA's Clean & Green Power goal of obtaining 7-1/2 percent of our generating capacity from clean and green sources by 2015. Along with becoming the largest producer of solar power in the state of Florida, JEA is the first utility in the nation to install solar pv systems at every high school in our service territory. Several other solar systems have been installed at other JEA facilities, area universities, even the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce building downtown. |
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JEA’s award-winning circulating fluidized bed boilers at the Northside Generating Station, the cleanest solid fuel-burning boilers in the world |
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Girvin Road landfill, where JEA taps methane gas to power four 800 kW engines |
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JEA’s Buckman Water Reclamation Facility, which employs an “iron sponge” technology that has significantly reduced odors |
