Sithe said that the station, owned by its wholly owned affiliate Goreway Station Partnership, has successfully completed performance and reliability testing and has begun commercial operation.
The generation facility has also been certified by Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) in Ontario as meeting all IESO system requirements to dispatch into the Ontario wholesale market, the company said.
The Goreway Station is a natural gas-fired combined cycle generating plant located in Brampton, Ontario, within the greater Toronto area. At Goreway Station, Sithe Global has incorporated high efficiency gas turbines, selective catalytic reduction for the reduction of emissions of nitrogen oxides and an air-cooled condenser, which reduces the facility’s water consumption by 95%.
The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has entered into a 20 year clean energy supply agreement to take the full output of Goreway Station, as part of the OPA’s initiatives to address the need for additional power in the greater Toronto area. In addition to addressing local reliability needs, the plant will also support Ontario’s plan to transition to cleaner sources of electricity.
The Goreway facility was constructed under a turn-key engineering procurement and construction agreement with SNC-Lavalin Power Ontario. The facility will be operated under an operations and maintenance agreement by Sithe Global Canadian Power Services, an affiliate of Sithe Global.
