| Show Ir Mouth Mine th Electric Generating Generating Plant Supplies Kilowatts to Utah Central and southeastern Utah now have a new source of electrical energy derived from rom its own natIve native nat nat- Ive coal coni Last November Utah Power and light Cos new kilowatt mouth mine Carbon plant In Castle Gate began whirring out power for or the rapidly growing area Prior to operation of the new plant electricity used in Carbon county and southeastern Utah the southern end of the system Involved way two transportation of ol energy Carbon county coal was transported to UIL steam electric electric electric elec elec- plants in Utah and to Salt Lake City There the electricity Was generated and then sent through transmission lines back to Carbon county Tic Tie In on the UIL system of the coal-burning coal plant climaxed climaxed climaxed cli cli- more than three weeks of tests and slow wind up process of the ton turbine generator Split second timing required for synchronizing and final Inal tie in to the system was directed from the plants plant's instrument-cluttered instrument control room by Superintendent John Con Gen der The plant has an installed capacity capacity capa capa- city of kilowatts enough electric energy to supply the needs o of a city o of more than Located at Castle Gate In tn the midst of Utah's coal fields Carbon plant is the first central generating ing station in the area to be constructed constructed constructed con con- at the mouth of a coal mine E. E M. M Naughton UIL president and nd general manager said the plant at full ull capacity w will draw its fuel uel supplies at the rate of tons a day from an adjacent mine and other properties in the rich coal-rich Carbon Emery fields Each hour at full ull capacity the story 33 boiler will wUl turn out steam from 30 tons of coal ground to the fineness of talcum powder That's enough to heat five average homes homesell I all ell winter Under steam pressure of 1250 pounds per square inch the turbine blades at full capacity will turn at revolutions per minute or approximately miles per Lour hour Mr 1 Naughton said basic task of the new unit will be to furnish electrical energy to Utah Powers Power's customers in central and eastern i e L J 1 wa j z zb v h b Rt a FI Or 4 a R s 2 UTAH POWER LIGHT GO'S GOS mouth mine Carbon plant at Castle Gate Utah is the first central electricity generating station in the area The ready availability of coal was one of the chief factors prompting to locate this new kilowatt generating plant plant- in the growing central and south south- central Utah area The plants plants' boiler at full capacity will consume consume con con- sume pulverized coal ground to talcum powder fineness at the rate of tons per day equal to 12 railroad carloads each day The huge plant was placed in operation last November Utah Including the coal mines Surplus power w will be fed westward westward west west- westward ward over high voltage transmission transmission transmission sion lines into the Interconnected system that supplies most of northern northern north north- northern ern Utah and southern Idaho Completion of the Carbon plant raised the total installed generating capacity of the utility to kilowatts It is the newest plant of the company's current building program that by mid 1955 will see completion of the third kwh unit at Gadsby plant on the west outskirts of Salt Lake City Carbon is the company's second i largest power maker Largest is i the Gadsby steam electric plant which will generate kilowatts kilowatts kilowatts kilowatts' kilo kilo- watts watts' when its third unit is com com- |
