IPL = Indianapolis Power and Light
This plant began operations in 1931, but the first four units were retired a while ago. [TransmissionHub]
The plant converted all three remaining units from coal to natural gas by 2016.
"unit 5: 114 MW (1958), unit 6: 114 MW (1961), unit 7: 471 MW (1973)" [gem]
3 of the 24 groundwater monitoring wells have detected excessive amounts of antimony. [AshTracker]
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| Lane Miller posted Indianapolis Power and Lights turbine from 1900. Dan McQuade: Used to work in this plant, that was brought in as a display in 1931 when the first two units were built. Very cool piece of history. |
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| Mark Bastin posted IP&L Harding St. Station |
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| Street View, May 2019 |
Judging from the cute little white smokestacks, did they put the new natural gas boilers in the old building?
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| 3D Satellite |
This new building in their "front yard" is labeled "Solar photovoltaic power plant" by Google Maps. It sure didn't look like solar panels. But then I saw the sign with street view that says "IPL ADVANCION - ENERGY STORAGE ARRAY." That makes a lot of sense because the problem with solar power is that the sun doesn't shine while lights are turned on.
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| Street View |
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| Lane Miller commented on his post, cropped |
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| Charlie Nye via IndyStar [This May 2015 article has a lot of information. It also has "limited articles." And evidently it disappears from the web page after a while.] |
I grabbed an older image that shows the coal handling conveyors and water vapor coming out of the smokestack.
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| Google Earth, Oct 2013 |
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