Most popular:Navajo Generating Station
Operator: SRP
Location: Navajo Indian Reservation near Page, Ariz.
Participant summary:
| U.S. Bureau of Reclamation | 24.3% |
| SRP | 21.7% |
| Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power | 21.2% |
| Arizona Public Service Co. | 14.0% |
| Nevada Energy | 11.3% |
| Tucson Electric Power | 7.5% |
Service area: Navajo Generating Station (NGS) serves electric customers in Arizona, Nevada and California. The station also supplies energy to pump water through the Central Arizona Project.
Description: Coal-fired generating station.
Capacity: 2,250 megawatts from three 750-MW units.
Fuel source: Low sulfur bituminous coal from Peabody Western Coal Company's Kayenta Mine (78 miles to the southeast).
Plant construction: Construction began in 1969. The first unit began producing electricity in 1974. Commercial operation of the other units began in 1975 and 1976.
Construction costs: $650 million, including $200 million in environmental-control equipment. An additional $420 million was spent on new sulfur dioxide (SO2) scrubbers in the 1990s, and $45 million in 2009-11 to reduce nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions.
Air quality and emissions: NGS complies with all federal air quality standards and emission limitations. Electrostatic precipitators capture 99% of the fly ash, which is recycled for use in concrete, cement and other construction materials.
Limestone scrubbers remove over 90% of SO2 emissions. Installation of low NOx burners and separated overfire air technology reduces NOx emissions by approximately 40%.
Waste management: A successful NGS waste management program focuses on waste minimization. NGS consistently achieves its goal to be a small generator of hazardous waste and, for significant periods of time, meets the more stringent conditionally-exempt small quantity generator status.