Another massive piece of power equipment will soon be making its way to Omaha Public Power District’s Turtle Creek Station. It’s part of a planned expansion of the plant to help us reliably meet the growing demand for electricity in our service territory, OPPD said on Feb. 4.
A special heavy haul team was planning to move a large-scale generator to TCS in Sarpy County overnight. OPPD noted that with complex moves like this, timing is subject to change.
The generator itself weighs 710,411 pounds. Loaded onto the trailer that will haul it, the combined weight is nearly 900,000 pounds. Two trucks are needed to support the trailer. The combined length of the moving equipment is 196 feet – roughly three-fourths the size of a football field – and the height is more than 16 feet.
Combined, upgrades underway at both TCS and Cass County Station will add 900 megawatts of natural gas-powered generation capacity for OPPD customers.
More big equipment will be coming to TCS in the coming weeks. OPPD is coordinating nearly a dozen additional heavy haul moves of large equipment to various sites over the next three years.
"These efforts are just part of OPPD’s historic generation buildout within our multi-year, multi-billion-dollar investment plan to power our growing communities," it noted.
