Cardinal Station
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Cardinal Station Unit 3
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Some facts about Buckeye Power's Units 2 and 3 at the Cardinal Station, and about electricity they supply to the state's electric distribution cooperatives:
- Ohio's electric cooperatives serve more than 380,000 homes and businesses.
- The cooperatives combined have about 46,000 miles of distribution lines.
- In FY 2004, 7.9 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity were sold by the state's electric cooperatives. The average residential consumer getting electricity from a distribution cooperative used 1,121 kilowatt-hours a month.
- Ohio's electric cooperatives have an average of 7.7 consumers per mile of line and average about $13,000 in annual revenues per mile of line. By contrast, the state average for investor-owned utilities (IOUs) is 34 residential customers and about $70,000 in annual revenues per mile of line.
- The distribution cooperatives sell, on the average, 65 percent of their power to residential consumers. Commercial, industrial and off-peak sales to other utilities account for 35 percent of sales and substantially improve system load factor, making for more efficient use of capital facilities.
- The state's electric cooperatives paid more than $39 million in local, state and federal taxes in 2003. The Cardinal Station alone paid more than $7 million in taxes in 2004.
- Buckeye Power is the generation and transmission cooperative through which the cooperatives own Units 2 and 3 at the Cardinal Station. The two units combined produce 1,230 megawatts (MW) of power.
Cardinal Station
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Unit 2 |
Unit 3 |
| Capacity |
600 MW |
630MW |
| Original cost |
$107/KW |
$550/KW |
| Current cost |
$316/KW |
$555/KW |
| Ave. daily coal use |
4,600 tons |
5,300 tons |
| Taxes paid (2004) |
$7.1 million |
| Stack height |
826 feet |
895 feet |
| Concrete (cu.yds) |
50,000 |
120,000 |
| Structural steel |
5,000 tons |
16,260 tons |
| Electrical cable |
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568 miles |
| Construction man-hours |
9.2 million |
| Environmental equip. |
$152 million |
$180 million |
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