Colver Power Project
Owner Trustee: U.S. Bank National Association
Owner Participant: TIFD VIII-W, Inc.
Lessee: Inter-Power / AhlCon Partners, L.P. (IPAC)
Operator: A/C Power - Colver Operations
Fuel Supply & Ash Disposal
As of May 2007, Inter-Power/AhlCon Partners, L.P. owns or controls more than 20 years of waste fuel at current rates of consumption. The fuel used by the Power Plant is waste bituminous coal from sites either owned and/or controlled by the Partnership or acquainted by purchase order from a number of different opportunity fuel suppliers.
The Maple Coal site (pictured), sometimes referred to as the Colver Refuse Site, is adjacent to the Power Plant. It originally contained over three million tons of waste fuel at the start of the Project. THe site's thirteen employees who perform surface mining of the waste fuel mine site reclaimation and off-site fuel supply monitoring and processing are provided by Inter-Power Consultants and are under the direction of the Partnership's Management Team. Approximately 100 highway truckloads of waste fuel are brought to the facility each weekday from remote sites to achieve the blending of fuel. Each truck is weighed and samples are taken from each load to monitor the quality of waste coal. The waste coal is blended to meet the Power Plant's design range fuel quality.
Another important source of waste fuel is the Harmar Refuse Site, which is leased by the Partnership from Minerals Technology Inc. (an affiliate of Inter-Power). Approximately two million tons of waste coal are being recovered from the Harmar Refuse Site's slurry ponds and are being blended with the Project's other fuel sources. Although high in moisture content, the source has a high heating value and a low sulfur content, making it useful as a blend material for other higher sulfur sources.
The Cooney Refuse Site is another major source of waste fuel for the Project. The waste fuel is screened at the site and then transported.
Alkaline ash from the Power Plant is used to reclaim the Maple Coal Site, reducing or eliminating power quality runoff from the site. The ash is also being shipped off-site in limited quantities for the purpose of reclaiming other abandoned or active mine sites. Under the Project's existing permits, this Site can be used to dispose of the alkaline ash generated by the facility through 2020.
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