
LES Generation Facilities

Rokeby Generation Station
LES' primary peaking power station, totaling
249 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.
Terry Bundy
Generating Station (formerly
known as 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 169 MW on a hot summer day.
8th & J
LES' oil- or gas-fired power plant, totaling
27 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 1.32 MW of power.
Elkhorn Ridge Wind Farm
LES began receiving energy
from a share of the Elkhorn
Ridge Wind Farm in March
2009. LES' share is 6 MW of
the total 80-MW wind
project, which consists of
27 wind turbines. Located
five miles north of
Bloomfield in northeast
Nebraska, the project was
developed by Midwest Wind
Energy, LLC, and the power
is delivered through
Nebraska Public Power
District.
Laramie River Station
LES owns 12.7 percent of this coal-fired power plant, with
approximately 10.5 percent, or 175 MW, available after participation sales. Construction was completed in 1982 on the three-unit, 1,677 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. The 800 MW,
coal-fired plant provides
LES with 101 MW of energy.
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