500 foot stack “will be history by mid-February”.
Almost 40 years after the Mohave Generating Station first went online, and five years after the plant ceased operations, the most visible part of the 1,580-megawatt coal-powered facility will be imploded.
According to current plans, the plant’s 500-foot stack will be a memory by mid-February, said Paul Phelan, manager of engineering and technical services for Southern California Edison’s (SCE) power production department. SCE is the majority owner of the facility, with a 56 percent share. Co-owners are: Salt River Project, with 20 percent, NV Energy, with 14 percent, and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power holding a 10 percent interest.
Ground was broken at the approximately 2,500-acre site in 1968. The plant design called for a 275-mile long slurry pipeline to bring coal from mines at Black Mesa, Ariz. to create steam that would run two large turbo-generators. The generators began operating on April 1, 1971, and Oct. 1, 1971, respectively. The facility directly employed approximately 350 people.
In 1999, a lawsuit was brought by environmental groups, alleging emissions from the plant violated state and federal environmental standards. SCE maintained the facility was operating in full compliance with those standards.
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