Invenergy announced this week that Lackawanna Energy Center, located just outside of Scranton, Penn., has begun commercial operations.
Lackawanna Energy Center is a 1,485-megawatt natural gas combined-cycle electric generation facility with the capacity to power more than 1 million homes. Over the life of the project, the plant is expected to generate more than $50 million in revenue for its host community, the Borough of Jessup. The project created 30 full-time operations positions and more than 1,200 jobs at peak construction.
“We are tremendously proud to go online with the Lackawanna Energy Center, the largest and most technically sophisticated power plant Invenergy has ever developed, built and operated,” Michael Polsky, Invenergy founder and CEO, said. “This milestone is an incredible achievement for our team and project partners, who have delivered on our commitment to generate clean power, good jobs, and local community investment through this project.”
Invenergy partnered with Kiewit Power Constructors on facility construction, which began in March 2016.
The facility features a single-shaft design in which each of three 500-megawatt power islands is comprised of a combustion turbine and steam turbine that share a single generator. The plant generates power from three General Electric 7HA.02 high-efficiency, air-cooled natural gas combustion turbines, which allow the facility to respond quickly to variations in energy demand in addition to generating baseload power.
“GE and Invenergy’s long-standing relationship brings together two organizations focused on powering the world more efficiently and sustainably with the world’s most advanced technology,” Chuck Nugent, president and CEO of GE Power’s Gas Power Systems business, said. “We are proud to continue this relationship and to supply Invenergy’s state-of-the-art Lackawanna facility with the HA turbine, the world’s largest and most efficient gas turbine.”