Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power plants are an efficient and environmentally attractive form of fossil fuelled power generation.  CCGT power plants use gas turbines to produce electricity.  The waste heat from the gas turbines is captured in heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) where it produces steam to power steam turbines and generate more power, without additional fuel.  

Benefits: 

• Efficiency levels are higher than traditional thermal power generation or open-cycle gas turbine power generation
• Emissions are minimized through low NOx burners in the gas turbines

ATCO Power’s first CCGT power plant was the 1000 MW Barking Power Station in London, England.  When commissioned in 1995, it had the lowest emissions and highest efficiency of any power station of its type in the UK.  In 2004, ATCO Power further improved efficiency and emissions when the 580 MW Brighton Beach Power Station in Ontario came on line.

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