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Brunot Island Power Station

1935/1980

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Brunot Island Power Station
  • Title
  • Brunot Island Power Station
  • Creator
  • Jasper Evans
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B013.F06.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B013.F06.I02
  • Description
  • Duquesne Light Company’s Oil-Fired Peaking Units at its Brunot Island Power Station facility. The six-unit, simple cycle peaking facility began operation in 1972. In 2000 Orion Power MidWest announced plans to convert the Brunot Island facility to an efficient, environmentally friendly combined cycle power plant fuelled with natural gas. Downtown Pittsburgh is visible in the background.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Brunot Island Power Station (Pa.)
    Ohio River.
    Power-plants--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Duquesne Light Company.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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