Kirkland Lake

Name: Kirkland Lake Generating Station

Location: Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada

Energy source & type: Natural gas (89%), biomass (11%) - Combined-cycle generation with biomass

Opened: Base load 1991; peaker 2004

Capacity: 132 MW (111 base load (66 MW gas, 45 MW steam); 30 MW peaking plant)

% Owned/Operated: 68%/100%

Features

Equipment for base load is three 22 MW General Electric LM 2500 gas-fired turbines with heat recovery steam generators and two (one 20 MW and one 25 MW) steam turbine-generator sets
Equipment for peaker is one 30 MW General Electric LM2500 Plus gas turbine
PPA with Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation for wood-waste-fired sales to 2030
Long term maintenance agreements with the gas turbine OEM
Northland is operations manager