
LES Generation Facilities

Rokeby Generation Station
LES' primary peaking power station, totaling 251 megawatts (MW), and a 3 MW “Black Start” Diesel gen-set. All three combustion turbines can run on either natural gas or low sulfur No. 2 fuel oil.
Salt Valley Generating Station
LES' most efficient natural gas-fired plant uses waste heat from two of the three aero-derivative combustion turbines to create steam which is used to operate a steam turbine and generate additional power. Because of the high plant efficiency, this station is usually the first local resource dispatched to meet customer load and can generate 167 MW on a hot summer day.
8th & J
LES' oil- or gas-fired power plant, totaling
25 MW.
Wind Turbines
LES has two wind turbine
generators on the northeast
side of Lincoln. Our first
wind turbine generator was
completed in December 1998
and the second in October
1999. At full output, the
turbines are capable of
generating about 1,304
kilowatts of power.
Laramie River Station
LES owns 11.09 percent of this coal-fired power plant, with 10.5 percent, or 178 MW available after participation sales. Construction was completed in 1982 on the three-unit, 1,650 MW plant.
Sheldon Station
Owned by Nebraska Public Power District, LES participates by purchasing 30 percent of output, or about 68 MW.
Gerald Gentleman Station
Owned by Nebraska Public Power District, LES participates by purchasing 8 percent of output, or about 109 MW.
Western Area Power Administration
LES purchases 54 MW of firm power (hydropower), 72 MW of summer firm peaking and 21 MW of winter firm peaking power.
Walter Scott, Jr. Energy
Center Unit 4
LES owns 12.6 percent of
Walter Scott, Jr. Energy
Center Unit 4 near Council Bluffs,
Iowa, along with MidAmerican
Energy Company which
developed the power plant.
While the facility
will provide LES with 105 MW
of energy, LES will sell 50
MW back to MidAmerican until
January 2009.
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