Puget Sound Energy has purchased two 74-megawatt, natural gas-fired electric generators at the Whitehorn Generating Station, located northwest of Ferndale.
PSE bought the single-cycle, combustion-turbine generators for $22.6 million from Newark, N.J-based Public Service Resources Corp. The utility has been leasing the two units and using their power output since 1981.
PSE's Whitehorn power plant is used primarily to provide a source of back-up energy during daily or seasonal spikes in power usage. The facility's turbines can reach full generating capacity in a matter of minutes.
Over the past two years, PSE has overhauled and upgraded the two Whitehorn generating units. The utility's original Whitehorn generator, installed in 1974, was retired in 2000.
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