The Unit 4 at the Lambton plant was closed on July 4, 2009. The Unit has 494MW of power generation capacity.
The Lambton power facility is situated approximately 75 miles northeast of Detroit, on the St. Clair River in St. Clair. The facility commenced its services in 1969 with a total power generation capacity of 1,976MW.
The Lambton power plant comprises four units with a power generation capacity of 494MW each. When all the units are operating at full power, the plant uses 640 tons of coal per hour. One MW of power generated from the facility serves approximately 1,000 homes in Ontario.
All the other units at the plant were available for service.
For health and environmental reasons, the government of Ontario, by the end of 2014, intends to close all the coal-burnt generation plants in the province.
OPG owns four coal-fired power plants at Atikokan, Lambton, Nanticoke and Thunder Bay, with a total generation capacity of 6,400MW. OPG plans to convert a few of its coal-fired power plants to biomass plants, beginning with Atikokan in the northern part of the province and then Nanticoke near Lake Erie.
In order to close the coal power plants, the company is increasing the rate of power supplied from the coal-fired plants in the market, so as to make it easy for non-coal power generation at low cost similar to coal power.
OPG engages in the ownership and operation of approximately 22,000MW of generating capacity and markets electricity to utilities in Ontario and markets nearby the US and Canada.
