Brunot Island

Brunot Island (aka Brunot's Island) is a 129-acre island in the Ohio River at the west end of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. It is home to the Brunot Island Generating Station, a 315 MW fossil fuel power plant.

The Ohio Connecting Railroad Bridge crosses the Ohio River at the island. The island does not otherwise connect to the land, and all vehicular traffic must use a ferry to access the island. The employees of the power plant use a pedestrian walkway on the railroad bridge to go to work.

The island was scene to the accidental death of a 19 year old man from Kennedy Township, Matthew Scott Delanko. He was known to frequent the island to hang out; the authorities have ruled the death accidental. Company employees told police that their van was missing from the parking lot near the main building where they had left it. They said they drove through the island in search of it and spotted the body in an open field before finding the van in some bushes, police said. [http://www.wpxi.com/news/17470499/detail.html]

Brunot Island Generating Station

*Type: Fossil fuel; oil and natural gas
*Net capacity: 315 MW (megawatts)
*Began operation: 1972
*Current owner: DQE Holdings, Inc.

Plants

*Three oil-fired simple cycle peaking power plants
**Total generating capacity: 53 MW
*One natural-gas-fired combined cycle power plant
**Total generating capacity: 262 MW

References

* [http://www.wpxi.com/news/17470499/detail.html WPXI Report]
* [http://www.reliant.com/PublicLinkAction.do?i_chronicle_id=09017522800020df&language_code=en_US&i_full_format=jsp#brunot Reliant Energy's website]