Ontario Power Generation Inc - Atikokan Station

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Atikokan Generating Station (GS), in operation since 1985, is located near the Town of Atikokan, 190 kilometres west of Thunder Bay. It has one coal-fuelled generating unit with low nitrogen oxide (NOx) burners that produces over 200 megawatts (MW) of electricity using low sulphur lignite coal from Western Canada. Annual electricity production is typically in the range of 900 gigawatt-hours (GWh) or 900 million kilowatt-hours (KWh), enough to supply about 70,000 households for a year.

As part of Ontario's drive to eliminate coal-fired power generation by 2014, Ontario Power Generation will convert Atikokan to burn wood pellet "biomass" fuel by 2013.

www.opg.com/power/fossil/atikokan.asp
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Coordinates:   48°50'8"N   91°34'9"W
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