Oregon, OH: Walleye Power/Toledo Edison Bay Shore Power Plant

(Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2023

John Travers posted six photos with the comment: "Here are some photos of the Toledo Edison/ former FirstEnergy  Bayshore plant in Oregon Ohio near Toledo, from July 2011. One of my favorite plants with some of my favorite 345 kV towers.  I read that some company known as Walleye LLC now owns and operates one turbine at the plant, which mainly produces power for the nearby BP Husky refinery, which in turn produces petroleum coke that is used by the power plant as a coal substitute. I would appreciate any dates or info on the start up of all the turbo units as well as the plant itself."

Lee Pyzik: Original Unit 1-1955; Unit 2 - 1959; Unit 3 - 1963; Unit 4 - 1968

Unit 1 Boiler was replaced with a boiler that could burn pet coke in the late 90’s. [Actually, 2000]

Steve Stalter: Unit 1 was repowered with a CFB (Circulation Fluid Bed) boiler that burns petroleum coke from the refinery which is basically pure carbon that is leftover from refining process.

Burkart Dave: For many years the Bay Shore units ranked right up there nationally in reliability, heat rates, etc. There was a great deal of pride in the employees who worked to maintain and operate the 4 units.

Mark Reichert: You are correct. Bay Shore Unit 1 supplies now Cenovus. [Some comments indicate that Cenovus took ownership in 2022, and it is owned by China. So China doesn't have to bomb our infrastructure, they can just turn it off.]

Ron Simons: Mark Reichert They supply process steam to the refinery and Mw to the grid.

It's about a 150Mw generator, a little less to the grid.

Brandon Du: CFB, Unit 1 COD was 2001. Walleye Power is not the actual owner, but rather the owner’s name for the plant.

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In the street view at the top of these notes, a power line tower obscures the left-most smokestack. I got a better view of it because it has been modified. I presume that is Unit #1 that got converted to petcoke.

Street View, Aug 2023

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"Since 2000, Bay Shore Unit 1’s boiler was operating exclusively off petroleum coke produced at the nearby BP-Husky refinery. FirstEnergy in 2016 said it would shut down or sell Bay Shore Unit 1 by October 2020, when its agreement with the BP-Husky refinery expired.[2] However, the plant was sold to Walleye Power, LLC in 2018 and continued to operate[3] and report emissions to the EPA.[4] The plant provided steam to the adjacent refinery and typically operates around the clock except during turnaround periods."

I added the label "energyOil" because this boiler plant now burns crude oil residue rather than coal.