Essex Generating Station

Essex Generating Station
Country	United States of America
Location	Newark, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°44′18″N 74°07′35″W
Status	Decommissioned
Commission date	1915 1926 1971 1990
Decommission date	June 2022
Owner	PSE&G
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Natural gas
Turbine technology	Combustion Turbine
Cooling source	Passaic River
Power generation
Units operational	4
Nameplate capacity	617 MW

The Essex Generating Station is a peaking power plant on the banks of the Passaic River, three miles east of Downtown in Newark, New Jersey.[1]

Owned by the Public Service Electric and Gas Company, it was designed and constructed in 1915–16 and by 1924 six generators had been installed, totaling 214,444 kva.[2]

Four simple cycle combustion turbines totaling 617 MW. Three were brought on line in 1971, and another in 1990.[3] They were later replaced.[4]

The electrical substation facility suffered severe damage during Hurricane Sandy.[5] It is part of the PJM Interconnection of the Eastern Interconnection grid electric transmission system.[6]

See also

• List of power stations in New Jersey
• Essex County Resource Recovery Facility
• Newark Energy Center

References

1. "Power Plant Parcels of New Jersey".
2. Taylor, D. W. (1939). "Reconstruction of switching facilities at Essex generating station". Electrical Engineering. 58 (11): 761–769. doi:10.1109/EE.1939.6431631. S2CID 51673712.
3. "The Essex Generating Station". PSEG. Retrieved 2015-02-14.
4. "Energy Justice Communities Map".
5. "PSE&G crews furiously working to clean facility to get power back to thousands". November 2012.
6. ftp://www.pjm.com/planning/project-queues/impact_studies/w4034_imp.pdf