Yards Creek Generating Station

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Yards Creek Generating Station
Yards Creek Generating Station is located in Warren County, New Jersey
Yards Creek Generating Station
Location of Yards Creek Generating Station in Warren County, New Jersey
Country United States
Location Blairstown, New Jersey
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Status Operational
Owner(s) PSEG
FirstEnergy
Pumped-storage power station
Upper reservoir Upper Yards Creek Reservoir
Upper res. capacity 5,013 acre⋅ft (6,183,000 m3)
Lower reservoir Lower Yards Creek Reservoir
Lower res. capacity 5,452 acre⋅ft (6,725,000 m3)
Pump-generators 3 x 140 MW reversible Francis-type
Power generation
Nameplate capacity 420 MW
Annual generation 753.7 GWh

Yards Creek Generating Station is pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in Blairstown and Pahaquarry in Warren County, New Jersey The facility is jointed owned by subsidiaries of Public Service Enterprise Group[1] and LS Power, which purchased the FirstEnergy share in 2014.[2] It has an installed capacity of 420 MW.

Location

The facility is located in the Delaware Water Gap region of the New Jersey Skylands. When built the complex stretched in Pahaquarry, which got its name from the word Pahaquarra, which was a derivation of the Native American word Pahaqualong, which meant "the place between the mountains beside the waters". The township dissolved in 1997, becoming part of Hardwick Township[3]

Operations

Commercial operation began in 1965 and the power station was upgraded in the 1990s. Yards Creek consists of two reservoirs created by earth-fill embankment dams. The upper and lower reservoirs are separated by an elevation of 700 ft (210 m).[4] Water is conveyed between the plant & the Upper Reservoir via an 18’ diameter 1,800’ long exposed steel pipe At full station load, approximately 4 million gpm of water is released (9000 cfs). The full upper reservoir will last 5.7 hours at Hydraulic Turbine nameplate capacity. The storage facility provides energy regulation and spinning reserve during on-peak hours, and it provides an energy sink off-peak (11P.M. -7 A.M.) to allow fossil and nuclear plants to remain more fully loaded.[5][6]

See also

References

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  3. ↑ Bewley, Joel. "Lost to merger, a town vanished Tiny Pahaquarry Township gave up in 1997.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 23, 2006. access date 2014-12-31 "Pahaquarry, a Lenni-Lenape word that means 'the place between the mountains beside the waters,' rested between the Delaware River and the Kittatinny Ridge.... It lost steam and funding and was finally deauthorized by Congress in 1992."
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