American Municipal Power recognizes the important role of fossil fuel generation as a component of a balanced generation portfolio. Coal, natural gas and diesel generation are used to help reliably meet the power demand in member communities and predictable costs.

AMP is currently involved in three coal-fired generating facilities, the existing Richard H. Gorsuch Generating Station near Marietta, Ohio; the Prairie State Energy Campus, under construction in southern Illinois; and the Amercian Municipal Power Generating Station, which is under development in Meigs County, Ohio. For more information on these projects, use the links below.

Richard H. Gorsuch Generating Station
American Municipal Power Generating Station (AMPGS)
Prairie State Energy Campus

AMP uses natural gas units as distributed generation to help meet the peaking and standby resource needs of member communities. Three of these combustion turbine units are owned by AMP, located in Bowling Green, Galion and Napoleon, Ohio. Each site has one 15.5 MW unit and one 32 MW unit, providing approximately 142.5 MW of distributed generation capacity. The rest of the gas-turbine generating units, totalling 75 MW of capacity, are owned by the Ohio Municipal Electric Generation Agency (OMEGA) Joint Venture 2, with sites in Bowling Green, Hamilton and St. Marys, Ohio.

AMP generation technicians perform all operations and maintenance of all units, which are simple-cycle natural gas-fired turbines.

For emission control, AMP uses two types of state-of-the-art technology: water injection technology and Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR), both of which reduce nitrous oxide emissions. For more information on the AMP Combustion Turbine Project, use the link below.

OMEGA Joint Ventures – JV2

Smaller diesel units, owned by AMP member communities through the Ohio Municipal Electric Generation Agency (OMEGA) Joint Venture program, are used as distributed generation providing peaking power and mitigating the impact of higher power prices attibuted to times of reported congestion. Diesel units also provide back-up to the Belleville Hydroelectric Plant. For more information on these projects, use the link below.

OMEGA Joint Ventures – JV1, JV2 & JV5