I was out in Western Sarpy County the other day noticed this progress on the OPPD Turtle Creek Station
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OPPD wrote:Natural Gas Solutions
New natural gas facilities provide greater operating flexibility and enable OPPD to further integrate renewable energy into our portfolio, while maintaining affordability, reliability and resiliency.
The new facilities will be used to balance the energy load. The plants will run only as needed (estimated at less than 15% of the time) and will be available to support planned (maintenance) and unplanned (storms) outages, as well as be available to support regional power needs as directed by the Southwest Power Pool. Adding natural gas generation will help OPPD meet the growing energy needs of our service territory and support resiliency. That means OPPD can continue providing energy to our customers even in an unpredictable future.
Energy system modeling, proximity to a gas pipeline and transmission and distribution infrastructure helped determine the best natural gas locations for complementing new solar generation and enhance energy system reliability.
