Hatfield's Ferry Power Station


Hatfield's Ferry Power Station was a 1.7-gigawatt, coal power plant located in Greene County, Pennsylvania. The plant was operated by FirstEnergy. It began operations in 1969 and was shut down in 2013.

History

Hatfield's Ferry began generation in 1969 under the operations of Allegheny Energy. FirstEnergy assumed operations of Hatfield's Ferry following its merger with Allegheny Energy in 2010.

Environmental mitigation

In the mid-1990s, Allegheny Energy installed a control system which reduced the plant's nitrogen oxide emissions. In 2001, Hatfield's Ferry added a natural gas reburn system. In that same year, Allegheny Energy introduced a passive treatment system where groundwater from the fly ash landfill is treated with wetlands. Allegheny Energy commissioned a flue-gas desulfurization system, designed by Babcock & Wilcox, to be installed at Hatfield's Ferry in 2006. The equipment, which cost $700 million to install, removed 95% of sulfur dioxide and lowered mercury emissions at the plant when it was activated in 2009.

Closure and future plans

On July 9, 2013, FirstEnergy announced they would be shutting down Hatfield's Ferry by October 9. The company decided against investing $245 million to retrofit Hatfield's Ferry in order to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. In April 2017, FirstEnergy announced they would be selling part of the power plant site to APV Renaissance Partners Opco who are proposing a natural gas power plant.