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JEA owns and operates three generating plants and all transmission and distribution facilities. A fourth power plant, the St. Johns River Power Park (SJRPP), is owned jointly by JEA and the Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and operated by JEA. JEA and FPL are also joint owners of Unit 4 at Georgia Power Company's coal-fired Robert W. Scherer Plant (Plant Scherer), which is located in Macon, Georgia. JEA owns a 200 net megawatt share of Unit 4. JEA's ownership interest in Scherer is structured as a separate JEA bulk power supply system. In addition, JEA produces 3.2 megawatts from a methane-fueled generating facility at the Girvin Road Landfill. JEA's net generating capability is 2,361 megawatts.
Capacity expansion and renovation projects demonstrate JEA's commitment to environmental leadership, fuel diversification and rate stability. JEA's newest generating facility is Brandy Branch, located in west Jacksonville, home to three 170 megawatt combustion turbine units. These units are capable of operating on both natural gas and diesel fuel. Units1 and 2 went into commercial operation May 31, 2001, followed by Unit 3 on October 12, 2001.
The Northside Generating Station Repowering Project will make Jacksonville home to two of the largest circulating fluidized bed combustors, or CFBs, in the world. These CFBs will produce nearly 300 megawatts each and utilize coal and petroleum coke as fuels. The project is part of the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Coal Technology, and it will reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and particulate matter by at least 10 percent compared to 1994/'95 levels when it is completed this year.
These projects will replace or modify nearly 40 percent of JEA's generating fleet.
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