View of Brandon Shores from the south

Location:

• Anne Arundel County

Ownership:

• Constellation Power Source (formerly BGE)

Site Generation Information:

• Two stacks, each 700 ft high
• Brandon Shores produces 600,000 tons of fly ash/year. Most used as structural fill (e.g. Brandon Woods Commercial Park)
• Closed cycle cooling with mechanical draft tower
• Unit 1 on line 1984
• Unit 2 on line 1991
• Units 1 and 2 are identical units, each 690 MW gross
• 375 Acre site
• Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) added 1999 at cost of $100 million; 90% reduction in NOx, operates May to Oct, at a cost of about 4% plant efficiency. Plant also has overfire air and low NOx burners, as well as a hot side ES precipitator in front of SCR

Capacity:

• 1,296 MW

Major Fuel Type:

• Coal, used at 250 tons per hour (5-6000 ton per typical day)
• All coal is received by 7000 ton capacity barges (shared with Wagner)
• There is normally a 300,000 ton storage pile (30 day backup)
• 0.7% Sulfur coal is used to avoid a need for scrubbers

Number of Units:

• Two Coal Fired Steam Boilers

Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) addition to unit 1 on left. Unit 2 has identical equipment

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