Jb sims power plant

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Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. A virtual community meeting was held Tuesday evening to inform community members about plans for the future of the site and to answer questions. After remediation, a new operations and technology facility will be built to generate heat and power.

It will also be home to the city's snowmelt operations, which was previously powered by the Sims plant. The project would consist of five reciprocating internal combustion engines with five natural gas-fired hot water boilers. The building will be made out of industrial materials, incorporating sustainable technologies like solar panels. The facility will produce less power than what the city needs and the majority of the city's power needs will come from the grid, using resources from outside of the city.

However, project leaders say the facility will protect the community from wholesale energy price spikes during "peak summer load conditions. Tuesday's meeting was the last in a set of three informational community meetings the Board of Light and Power hosted on the issue.

Anyone with questions about the facility who did not have the chance to attend the meetings can contact the Board of Light and Power or visit their FAQ page. The outside of the J. The coal-fired power plant, built in , is in the final days of operation and will be torn down beginning this summer. Alison Zywicki azywicki mlive. The city will now get its electricity from other power providers — just as it already has been doing during spring and fall months for about the last five years, Walters said.

Rates are expected to remain the same for customers, he said. The J. Sims No. All three will be demolished starting this June, a process expected to last through summer , Walters said. Bierlein Construction of Midland, which is finishing up the removal of the B. The board had recorded the official closure date of the Sims plant as June 1, knowing that the date would be closer to mid-February considering the amount of coal it had left to burn, Walters said.