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Lennox Generating Station

Power station in Ontario, Canada

Field	Value
name	Lennox Generating Station
image	Lennox power stn.JPG
location_map_caption	Location within southern Ontario
location	7263 33 Highway West, Greater Napanee, Ontario K0H 1G0
country	Canada
coordinates
owner	Ontario Power Generation
status	O
th_fuel_primary	Natural gas
th_fuel_secondary	Fuel oil
th_technology	Steam turbine
ps_units_operational	4 × 535 MW
ps_electrical_capacity	2,140 MW
ps_electrical_cap_fac	1.5%
commissioned	1976
website

Lennox Generating Station is a natural gas- and fuel oil-fired power station in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada. Owned and operated by Ontario Power Generation, it is situated on Highway 33 on the north shore of Lake Ontario, 2 mi west of Bath, Ontario. It is the largest natural gas power station in Canada by installed capacity.

In the 1970s, Lennox was a solely oil-fired plant in an era of rising oil prices. Oil is delivered by tanker cars via a spur of the Montreal-Kingston-Toronto CN Rail line. From 1982 to 1987 the plant was placed in reserve to surplus power in Ontario. In 1997, the plant was converted to operate with either heavy oil or natural gas. In 2008, the plant obtained regulatory approval for an ozone generation system to control zebra mussel fouling of service water intake pipes.

As of 2007, Lennox represented 50% of Ontario installed generation capacity east of the Toronto zone. When operating at full capacity, the plant claims to be the largest user of natural gas in Ontario. The facility is operated solely at times of peak load; the base load for the Ottawa-Toronto region is supplied by Pickering and Darlington stations in Durham Region and by an asynchronous interconnection with Hydro-Québec which has served Ottawa since 2010.

It is common to operate on natural gas during the summer season and switch to oil in the winter, when demand is high for gas.

Description

The Lennox Generating Station consists of:

4 535 MW units
2 smokestacks - each 650 ft tall.

In 2012, Ontario's government announced an additional 900-megawatt TransCanada Energy natural gas plant (ultimately called the Napanee Generation Station) to be built at the Lennox Generating Station site; the project was originally planned for Oakville, Ontario but the location was changed in 2010 as part of a controversial government decision to relocate it and another gas-fired power plant. While estimates vary, the additional costs to transport natural gas eastward and generated power westward are expected to represent hundreds of millions of dollars over the lifetime of the new generation plant; one report claims $675 million. The relocation of this proposed plant, and another proposed for Mississauga but displaced to Sarnia's Lambton Generating Station, were key political issues in 2011 and 2014 Ontario elections.

As of 2012, the site employed 160 people; an additional 25 permanent jobs will be added as a result of the 900MW expansion.

Emissions

Greenhouse gas	Sum (tonnes)	Sum (tonnes CO2e*)	CO2	CH4	N2O	Total
180,585.00	180,585
42.00	882
5.00	1,550
-	183,017

*Calculated figures for CO2e are rounded to the nearest tonne.

Year	Emissions (tonnes CO2e)
2004	638,074
2005	986,676
2006	305,106
2007	607,761
2008	288,674
2009	222,470
2010	121,412
2011	103,652
2012	183,017

References

"Lennox power plant gets $7 million a month for operating at 1.5 per cent capacity {{!}} Toronto Star". The Toronto Star.
"Power Generation: Lennox Generating Station". [[Ontario Power Generation]].
(27 November 2008). "Registration Decision: Hankin Ozone Generator (RD2008-12)". Health Canada.
(2010-06-04). "Lennox Generating Station earns safety designation". Napanee Guide.
(2007). "Lennox GS Deregistration Analysis".
"Outaouais Substation". Hydro Québec.
[http://www.industcards.com/st-other-canada.htm Power Plants Around the World] {{webarchive. link. (2009-07-19)
"Drawings of Lennox Generating Station Units 1+2". SkyscraperPage.
"Drawings of Lennox Generating Station Units 3+4". SkyscraperPage.
Robert Benzie. (2012-09-24). "Oakville power plant will cost public $40M to scuttle". [[Toronto Star]].
(24 September 2012). "Liberal deal to move Oakville gas-fired plant to Lennox will cost $40M". Financial Post.
"Archived copy".
Bruce Sharp. (2012-09-24). "Ontario's Power Trip: The $733-million gas boondoggle". [[Financial Post]].
"Oakville gas plant cancellation costs $675M, AG says". CBC News.
"More reaction to expansion of Lennox generating station". [[CKWS-TV]].
"Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program data search - Canada.ca".

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