Masontown, PA: 1969 1.7gw Hatfield's Ferry Power Station

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"570 MW (1969), 570 MW (1970), 570 MW (1971)" [gem]

There is no railroad. It received its coal from barges. The Monongahela River goes South into coal country.

The smokestacks are gone in the May 2023 street view.

Street View, Aug 2019

I kept going to older views looking for barges docked at the plant and discovered that the Masontown Bridge is a rather recent replacement of a truss bridge.

Street View, Aug 2012

Note that the truss bridge is still standing in this photo. But the power plant has the new pollution control smokestack.

Thomas F. Graziani posted
Hatfield's Ferry
Michael Reed: Another Power Plant forced to shut down because of these Liberal Whack Jobs.
Adam Karpa: Michael Reed the plant shutting down had nothing to do with that, when Allegheny power owned the plant it was in great running condition, when first energy bought it they essentially stopped routine maintenance outages and went to emergency outages which meant it only got fixed when it broke, that all stacked up on everything and by the end of its life they could barely keep units running for a entire week, couple that with having spent 600 million on scrubbers and still needing 200+ million scr’s, the place was mothballed. This is the story at almost all First Energy plants, Stratton, and Bruce Mansfield to name a couple more in the area, all had record production runs before FE took over and stopped routine maintenance outages and ran them into the ground.
Adam Karpa: Michael Reed I’m not gonna pretend like that had nothing to do with it, but there are still plenty of coal plants in the area that still run, the fact is First Energy ran ALL their coal plants into the ground, they wanted to sell but after a decade of NEVER doing maintenance they were impossible to sell, Sammis would if needed 200 million in work to be in good enough shape for anybody to consider buying it, Mansfield the same, I remember seeing warehouses full of economizer elements at Mansfield for 8 years that were supposed to be installed a decade ago, they just never did it, and when all that caught up with them the plants weren’t making enough money to justify putting that amount of work into them. The government didn’t help, but make no mistake, first energy is responsible for the downfall of their own plants.

In 2013, First Engergy decided to close the plant. They spent $700m in 2009 to add a scrubber to " remove 95 percent of sulfur dioxide emissions and significantly reduce mercury emissions." But $245m would need to be spent to comply with additional EPA regulations. [HeraldStandard]

There are a lot of pipes in a water-tube boiler.

1 of 18 demolition photos posted in Power Plant Pictorial by Jeffrey Pawlak