Combined-Cycle

Combined-cycle power plants combine a gas turbine and a steam turbine to produce electricity from one fuel input. A gas turbine turns an electrical generator. The hot exhaust gas from the turbine is captured in a heat recovery boiler where the majority of the heat is converted into steam. The steam is then injected into a steam turbine that turns another electricity generator, resulting in additional output of electricity from the one fuel input. 

Combined-cycle plants operate at higher levels of efficiency than traditional thermal generation and natural gas contributes considerably less to air pollution than conventional coal or oil-fired generation. 

ATCO Power’s combined-cycle plants include the 1,000-megawatt Barking Power Plant and the 580-megawatt Brighton Beach plant in Ontario.