CEDAR BAY

The Cedar Bay Generating Plant is a 258 megawatt, coal-fired cogeneration plant located in Jacksonville, Florida. It provides electricity — enough for about 250,000 homes — to Florida Power and Light Company and up to 215,000 pounds of steam per hour to Smurfit-Stone Container's adjacent recycled linerboard paper mill. Power magazine, a leading industry trade publication, has called Cedar Bay "one of the cleanest and most flexible coal-burning cogeneration facilities in the world." For continuing to burn coal cleanly in Florida, Cedar Bay received Power's 1995 "Power Plant of the Year" award.

The plant operates three reheat circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) boilers fueled by low-sulfur coal. CFB boilers are one of the most advanced and proven technologies available today for burning coal cleanly. A circulating fluidized-bed contains a mixture of crushed limestone and coal suspended in a flow of hot air. The limestone (aragonite) strips the sulfur from the coal during combustion, minimizing sulfur dioxide (S02) emissions.

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