System Profile

General Foods constructed the Dover coal-fueled combined heat and power plant in 1984. Kraft Foods later acquired the manufacturing facility and sold the power plant to StatOil in 1996. NRG Thermal purchased it in 2000. In 2001, NRG Thermal added two General Electric LM-6000 natural gas/oil-fueled combustion-turbine electric peaking units to the facility.

Services provided: Steam for space heating, domestic hot water and industrial use, as needed; electricity for all in-plant uses and distribution to grid.

The Dover facility is a merchant plant that sells electricity to the mid-Atlantic PJM, which feeds into the city of Dover transmission/distribution system. Given the grid’s configuration, NRG Energy Center Dover is the only electric generator operating in the city limits nearly 80 percent of the time.

Major customers: Nearby Kraft Foods Plant and, via the electric grid, the State House, and numerous other buildings in Dover.

Plant capacity. One plant with 16 MW steam turbine capacity and 88 MW combustion turbine power; plant staffed 24/7. Can supply up to 70,000 lb/hr of steam to Kraft.

Distribution system. Two-pipe steam system with condensate return to plant from Kraft Foods.