Chalk Point Generating Plant

Chalk Point Generating Plant

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  • Location: Washington, D.C. area in Prince George's County, Maryland, on the Patuxent River
  • Capacity: 2,417 megawatts; capable of operating base load, intermediate and peak levels
  • Equivalent number of homes served: 2,417,000
  • Fuel: Coal, oil, and gas
  • Mirant's Piney Point Oil Pipeline spans 51.5 miles and serves Mirant's nearby Chalk Point and Morgantown plants
  • Customers: Output is sold into the PJM energy market
  • Began service: 1964; acquired by Mirant in 2000
  • Number of employees: 242, comprising a multiskilled workforce where employees are cross-trained in operations and maintenance to ensure safe, clean and reliable production 24/7
  • Contact:
    Tom Turk,
    plant manager
    301 843 4100


Awards/Recognition

In 2005, Mirant Mid-Atlantic earned awards from the State of Maryland and the Oyster Recovery Partnership for working to help wildlife thrive. Senator Mike Miller (D-MD), state senate majority leader, presented the Governor's Citation to the plant in recognition of employees' efforts.

All of Mirant's Mid-Atlantic operations are Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) certified and have received national recognition for their contributions to wildlife habitat conservation. Efforts include providing artificial nesting structures and planting native trees, shrubs, and aquatic plants

It’s a county of opposites: home to both a 13,000-acre wildlife refuge and some of the most technically advanced air and spacecraft at Andrews Air Force Base and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Mirant's Chalk Point Generating Plant, the largest power plant in Maryland, helps support this thriving economic hub with sensitivity to the pristine environment at its back door.

Natural Resources for over a decade. Chalk Point's numerous wildlife and fishery programs have earned certifications from the Wildlife Habitat Council since 1991.

The 40-year-old plant is ISO 14001:2004 certified, which means it meets a widely accepted international standard for environmentally responsible operation. At present there are fewer than 5,000 such certifications in the United States.

Chalk Point employees work alongside their colleagues at three other Mirant Mid-Atlantic plants to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries through various projects, including raising and releasing threatened fish species, oyster plantings, and habitat conservation. As an example, Chalk Point's aquaculture facility raises and releases 150,000-200,000 fish each year, and has been raising 70 Atlantic sturgeon for the Maryland Department of

Environmental Highlights

  • Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SO2). Installation to begin in 2007
  • Emissions-reducing scrubbers to be installed beginning 2007
  • Use of electrostatic precipitators designed to remove 98% of flyash during start up and 99.2% during normal operation <

    LI>Use of stack monitoring equipment for opacity (smoke), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), SO2 and NOx

  • Unit 1 & 2 boilers equipped with low-NOx burners with separated over-fire air
  • Selective autocatalytic reduction (SACR) technology currently being installed on Unit 2
  • Closed circuit cooling tower system in place
  • Plant discharge points monitored for contaminants
  • All plant drains, storm drains, coal pile run-off and cooling tower sediments and solids enter one of two sediment basins

Community Outreach

Making a House a Home

Employees from Chalk Point, Morgantown and the Piney Point Pipeline amassed a houseful of furniture for a needy family with two special needs children. Employees donated what they had on hand and rallied support from a local church for more contributions. The home was constructed by the state of Maryland for a single father and his four children.

Patuxent River Shoreline Cleanup

Patuxent River Shoreline Cleanup

Chalk Point employees removed hundreds of pounds of debris from a two-mile length of shoreline in their fourth annual Patuxent River Shoreline Cleanup event, held in April 2006.



Wildlife Adventure Day

Wildlife Adventure Day

Chalk Point employees team up with their Morgantown and Piney Point Pipeline colleagues to host Wildlife Adventure Day each May. The annual event teaches youth about environmental conservation practices, and features demonstrations from local wildlife experts.

Charitable Donations

  • CMH Foundation
  • Hughesville Baseball Association
  • Hughesville Volunteer Fire Department/Rescue Squad
  • Maryland Sheriff's Institute
  • Mechanicsville Optimist Club
  • Southern Maryland Hospital Center
  • Teague's Point Road Crime Watch Association
  • Town of Eagle Harbor
  • Adopt a Family
  • Alexandria Chamber of Commerce
  • Alexandria EMT
  • Alexandria Fire Department
  • Alexandria Hazmat
  • Alexandr
  • Alice Ferguson Foundation
  • Baden/Aquasco Citizen's Association
  • Baden Aquasco Little League
  • Baden Volunteer Fire Department/Rescue Squad
  • Benedict Volunteer Fire Department
  • Brandywine Volunteer Fire Department/Rescue Squad
  • Calvert Memorial Hospital
  • Cedar Haven Association
  • ia Public Schools
  • Alice Ferguson Foundation

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