Well, of course the cops are going to show up. That’s the Soylent Green Factory.

That’s where undercover cops are manufactured. Now it makes complete sense, doesn’t it?

Michael’s right. Natural gas turbines are often used to provide additional power for peak-load conditions (i.e., summer afternoons when everyone has the AC on). I don’t know anything about these particular units, though.

Yep, and it looks like Pepco wants to shut it down by 2012. Here’s a more detailed description: “Buzzard Point station consists of two banks of oil-fired combustion turbines,
(“CT”), the Buzzard Point East Bank and Buzzard Point west Bank that are located in
Washington, D.C. Each bank consists of 8 CTs and each CT has a 16 MW name plate
capacity rating. The total capacity rating of the Buzzard Point Station, which was built in
1968, is 256 MW.”

Pepco’s 2009 Summer Reliability Report can be found here (pdf): http://tinyurl.com/kmjwpk

I’m increasingly interested in the large power plant next to it. The description of Buzzard Point only seems to include the peaking units. I might be back with more info as I dig it up.

OK, last post: this pdf (http://tinyurl.com/kqnjg2, page 19) has details about the larger power plant, built in 1933 and decommissioned in 1983. It is now a historic landmark. The pdf has some nice photos and a history of the plant, too.

As lmno.p – let me say there were no “no photo” signs – just “report suspicious behavior” signs. Lugging a 6×7 medium format camera with a shift lens that weighs more than I do may be a bit suspicious.

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