Atikokan Generating Station is a biomass power plant owned by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) located 8 km (5 mi) north of Atikokan, Ontario (190 km (118 mi) west of Thunder Bay). The plant employs 90 people. The Atikokan Generating Station began operation as a coal fired station in 1985 and underwent an overhaul in the autumn of 2003.

Following the coal closures, Atikokan Generating Station was converted from coal to use biomass as fuel. The station is now the largest 100% biomass-fuelled plant in North America, providing renewable energy that can be dispatched whenever Ontario’s power system requires it.

2024年9月13日 · The province has renewed the power agreement for the Atikokan Generating Station for another five years. Owned and operated by Ontario Power Generation (OPG), the facility is the largest biomass-fuelled plant in North America, capable of generating 205 megawatts to the grid, which is used to power residential, commercial, and industrial users ...

The Atikokan Generating Station (AGS) is a 205 MW biomass fueled facility that can provide low-carbon peak, intermediate and baseload electricity in Ontario’s northwest (NW).

2024年9月13日 · A new agreement between Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and the Independent Electricity System Operator will keep the Atikokan Generating Station running for the next five years, the province said.

2024年9月13日 · OPG’s Atikokan Generating Station has entered into a new five-year contract with Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator. The station is North America’s largest 100% biomass-fuelled power plant. Its continued operation will mean critical power generation for Ontario’s grid as well as economic benefits for northwest Ontario.

Toronto - Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) Atikokan Generating Station (GS) is now operating on biomass. Biomass is an emerging fuel source that is recognized as beneficial to climate change mitigation. The station is the largest power plant …

2024年9月17日 · As part of Ontario’s commitment to phasing out of coal, OPG converted the Atikokan Generating Station from coal to 100% biomass making the station the largest biomass-fuelled plant in North America.

2021年4月30日 · Instead of being decommissioned with the other coal-fired plants, in 2014, the Atikokan, Ont., generating station became North America’s first plant to be converted from coal to biomass. Built in 1985, the plant was still considered fairly new with plenty of service life remaining, prompting the provincial government to recommission it as a ...

2019年9月24日 · Northwest of Lake Superior sits Atikokan Generating Station (GS), North America’s largest 100 per cent biomass station. Environment, Chemistry and Safety Technicians John Visser and Grant Rogoza stand in front of the dosing equipment that injects the citric acid into Atikokan’s furnace ash water .