{"id":36380,"date":"2020-04-16T01:45:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T09:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/?page_id=36380"},"modified":"2021-07-13T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:35:14","slug":"nikiski-combined-cycle-plant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/my-cooperative\/power-generation\/nikiski-combined-cycle-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikiski Combined Cycle Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38590 size-large alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nikiski-1600x968.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nikiski-1600x968.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nikiski-800x484.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nikiski-340x206.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nikiski-1536x929.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nikiski-2048x1238.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On January 1, 2014, Homer Electric began generating its own power and became independent from its wholesale power supplier. As the cornerstone of HEA\u2019s generation portfolio, the facility features a steam turbine in conjunction with an existing natural gas turbine to produce a total of 80 megawatts of power.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The steam turbine uses waste heat to create enough steam to produce 18 megawatts of power without using any additional natural gas.<\/li>\n<li>Power Dispatch is located at this facility and controls the power generation to match member load and maintains the interconnected system frequency.<\/li>\n<li>Along with hiring numerous local contractors, a total of 34 full-time, long term jobs were created.<\/li>\n<li>FUN FACT: The pressure of the natural gas delivered to the Nikiski plant is approximately 1,300 times higher than the natural gas pressure used in homes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On January 1, 2014, Homer Electric began generating its own power and became independent from its wholesale power supplier. As the cornerstone of HEA\u2019s generation portfolio, the facility features a steam turbine in conjunction with an existing natural gas turbine to produce a total of 80 megawatts of power. The steam turbine uses waste [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":35506,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36380\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}