The Essex Generating Station is a peaking power plant on the banks of the Passaic River, three miles east of Downtown in Newark, New Jersey.[1]

Owned by the Public Service Electric and Gas Company, it was designed and constructed in 1915–16 and by 1924 six generators had been installed, totaling 214,444 kva.[2]

Four simple cycle combustion turbines totaling 617 MW. Three were brought on line in 1971, and another in 1990.[3] They were later replaced.[4]

The electrical substation facility suffered severe damage during Hurricane Sandy.[5] It is part of the PJM Interconnection of the Eastern Interconnection grid electric transmission system.[6]

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References

  1. ^ "Power Plant Parcels of New Jersey".
  2. ^ Taylor, D. W. (1939). "Reconstruction of switching facilities at Essex generating station". Electrical Engineering. 58 (11): 761–769. doi:10.1109/EE.1939.6431631. S2CID 51673712.
  3. ^ "The Essex Generating Station". PSEG. Retrieved 2015-02-14.
  4. ^ "Energy Justice Communities Map".
  5. ^ "PSE&G crews furiously working to clean facility to get power back to thousands". November 2012.
  6. ^ ftp://www.pjm.com/planning/project-queues/impact_studies/w4034_imp.pdf
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