Portlands Energy Centre
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The Portlands Energy Centre is a 550-megawatt natural gas electrical generating station in Toronto, Ontario. It is located in the Port Lands area of the Toronto waterfront at 470 Unwin Avenue, adjacen
Portlands Energy Centre Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hearn Generating Station
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The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station is a decommissioned electrical generating station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The plant was originally fired by coal, but later converted to burn natural gas.
Portlands Energy Centre
…in Toronto, Ontario. It is located in the Port Lands area of the Toronto waterfront at 470 Unwin Avenue, adjacent to the site of the decommissioned Hearn Generating Station. The Portlands Energy Centre was originally owned and operated as a 50/50 joint partnership between Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and TransCanada…
The station's current appearance
Hearn Generating Station operating circa 1960-70s prior to the construction of the superstack
Turbine hall of Hearn Generating Station, circa 1983
Turbomachinery removed from the station and left to rust in 2007. On the left is a turbine casing (high-pressure and intermediate-pressure?), a section of turbine (double-flow low-pressure) behind it in the middle, and to the right is a rotor (a.k.a. field) from one of the generators. Some indication of the power generated by the turbines can be seen in the size of the power shaft.