Goreway Station Begins Commercial Power Production in Brampton

Sithe Global Power, LLC (“Sithe Global”) has announced that the 880 MW Goreway Station, owned by its wholly owned affiliate, Goreway Station Partnership, has successfully completed performance and reliability testing and has begun commercial operation. The generation facility has also been certified by Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (“IESO”) in Ontario as meeting all IESO system requirements to dispatch into the Ontario wholesale market.

The Goreway Station is a natural gas-fired combined cycle generating plant located in Brampton, Ontario, within the greater Toronto area. The plant reflects Sithe Global’s commitment to building plants that are among the cleanest in the world. At Goreway Station, Sithe Global has incorporated high efficiency gas turbines, selective catalytic reduction for the reduction of emissions of nitrogen oxides and an air-cooled condenser, which reduces the facility’s water consumption by 95%. The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has entered into a 20 year clean energy supply agreement to take the full output of Goreway Station, as part of the OPA’s initiatives to address the critical need for additional power in the greater Toronto area. In addition to addressing local reliability needs, the plant will also support Ontario’s plan to transition to cleaner sources of electricity.

The Goreway facility was constructed under a turn-key engineering procurement and construction agreement with SNC-Lavalin Power Ontario Inc. The facility will be operated under an operations and maintenance agreement by Sithe Global Canadian Power Services, Ltd., an affiliate of Sithe Global.

Bruce Wrobel, Sithe Global’s Chairman and CEO, said, “Achieving commercial operation of the Goreway facility represents an exciting milestone to Sithe Global, and we look forward to our new role as a key and reliable generator of clean energy for Brampton, the greater Toronto area, and the province of Ontario. This achievement is the culmination of extraordinary efforts by a great number of people both within the Sithe Global and SNC teams.”

Located on Goreway Drive in Brampton the Goreway Station is now the largest and most technologically advanced gas-fired thermal power station in Canada.

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