- Presque Isle Power Plant
The Presque Isle Power Plant is an electric generating plant located in
Marquette, Michigan on the shore ofLake Superior . The plant has 9 generating units with a total net generating capacity of 617 megawatts. This plant has two smokestacks 450' in height and was built in 1955. Units #5 throught #9 went into service between 1975 and 1979. [ [http://www.we-energies.com/home/PresqueIsle.pdf WE Energies, "Presque Isle Power Plant"] , June 2006]This plant generates 90% of the Upper Peninsula's electricity and 12% of the electricity in the
Wisconsin Energy system. Half of the plants generating capacity goes to the Empire and Tilden iron ore mines on the nearbyMarquette Iron Range .The plant is owned by
Wisconsin Energy and is connected to the grid by numerous 138kV transmission lines and one 345kV line known as the Presque Isle-Plains-Morgan line which runs from Marquette southwest to Iron Mountain and south toAppleton, Wisconsin where it ties into numerous other 345Kv lines going south towardsMilwaukee and west towardsWausau, Wisconsin andSt. Paul, Minnesota .In 2006, the plant incorporated a new process for capturing and reducing
mercury emissions. [http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/press/2006/06027-TOXECON_Begins_Full-Scale_Operatio.html]References
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