Brighton Beach Generating Station is a natural gas fired

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fossil fuel power station in the Brighton Beach neighbourhood of Windsor,

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, Canada, owned by the Atura Power subsidiary of

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. The electricity generated is under the control and marketing lead of Coral Energy Canada Inc. Gas for the plant is supplied by

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, and cooling water is drawn from the Detroit River.

Description

The plant consists of: *Two

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7FA gas turbine generators *Two heat recovery steam generators () *One General Electric D11 condensing steam turbine generator Brighton Beach is connected into the Ontario grid via two 230 kV connections and one 115 kV connection, at the adjacent Keith transformer station owned by

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