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The John W. Turk Jr. Coal Plant is a base load 600-megawatt coal-fired power station in Fulton, Arkansas, operated by the American Electric Power subsidiary Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO). It provides power to customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. It came online in 2012 as the first sustained "ultra"-supercritical coal plant in the United States, reaching boiler temperatures above 1,112 °F and pressures above 4,500 psi. The plant relies on low-sulfur coal from the Powder River Basin and is named for John W. Turk Jr., president and CEO of SWEPCO from 1983 to 1988. Its construction was embroiled in regulatory roadblocks and environmental lawsuits. At a total cost of $1.8 billion, it was the most expensive project in the state's history.〔 ==Controversy== Though first proposed in 2006, regulatory issues and lawsuits delayed completion by 15 months. As part of a settlement reached in December 2011 with the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society, Audubon Arkansas and the Hempstead County Hunting Club, American Electric Power/SWEPCO agreed to close one of the 528-megawatt generating units at its J. Robert Welsh Power Plant in Texas by the end of 2016 and purchase 400 megawatts of renewable energy capacity by the end of 2014. The settlement also required the company to contribute $8 million to The Nature Conservancy, $2 million to the Arkansas Community Foundation and reimburse $2 million in legal fees. American Electric Power/SWEPCO agreed to never install additional generating units at the plant or build another coal-fired facility within 30 miles. SWEPCO announced in January 2012 it had reached 20-year agreements to purchase 359 megawatts of wind power from sources in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, more than quadrupling its wind power portfolio. The Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority, 7 percent owner of the Turk plant, entered a 25-year agreement in 2012 to purchase 49 megawatts of wind power capacity.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=OMPA To Purchase 49.2 Megawatts Of Canadian Hills Wind Farm )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John W. Turk Jr. Coal Plant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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