The Nanticoke Solar Facility is a 44 MW solar power station in

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. It is located on the site of the defunct

Nanticoke Generating Station The Nanticoke Generating Station was a coal-fired power station in Nanticoke, Ontario in operation from 1972 to 2013. It was the largest coal power station in North America and, at full capacity, it could provide 3,964 MW of power into th ...

, which operated from 1972 to 2013 and was the largest

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in North America. The facility is owned and operated by Nanticoke Solar LP, a

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(80%), the

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Development Corporation (15%), and the

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(5%).

History

The Nanticoke Solar Facility and its predecessor, the Nanticoke Generating Station, is built on the site of the "Battle of Nanticoke" where the

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volunteer militia routed a band of American marauders who had been pillaging area farms and terrorizing the country in 1813. The site was designated a

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in 1924. Following the phase-out of coal power in the province, Ontario Power Generation announced in July 2015 that it would not be converting the facility to

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and that remaining equipment would be sold or repurposed elsewhere. The two smokestacks were imploded using controlled demolition on February 28, 2018. OPG established Nanticoke Solar LP as a joint venture with First Nations to build and operate a new solar facility on the site. The Nanticoke Solar Facility is Ontario Power Generation's first solar facility. Contracts were let in 2016 and construction began in 2018. The 192,000-panel solar farm was completed in March 2019 but demolition of the old Nanticoke GS structures continued even after construction was completed. The last sections of the former Nanticoke GS were demolished on August 22, 2019.

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* {{official, https://www.opg.com/strengthening-the-economy/our-projects/nanticoke-solar-facility/ Ontario Power Generation Buildings and structures in Haldimand County Energy infrastructure completed in 2019 Joint ventures 2019 establishments in Ontario Solar power stations in Ontario

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