{{Short description|New Jersey power station}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox power station | name = Kearny Generating Station | image = Kearny Generating Station September 2020.jpg | image_caption = | country = United States | location = South Kearny, New Jersey | coordinates = {{coord|40|44|14|N|74|05|56|W|region:US-NJ_type:landmark|display=inline}} | owner = PSE&G | status = O | th_fuel_primary = Natural gas | ps_cooling_source = Hackensack River | th_technology = Combustion turbine | ps_combined_cycle = | commissioned = 1923<br>1954<br>2012 | decommissioned = }}
'''Kearny Generating Station''' is a peaking power plant on the banks of the Riverbend of the Hackensack River in South Kearny, New Jersey. Owned and operated by Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSEG) the power station consists of 10 simple cycle combustion turbines totaling 456 MW.<ref>{{cite news | title = The Kearny Generating Station | publisher = PSEG | url = https://www.pseg.com/family/power/fossil/stations/kearny.jsp| access-date = 2014-12-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.powerplantjobs.com/ppj.nsf/PowerPlants3?OpenForm&cat=2401&companyname=PSEG%20Fossil%20LLC&plantname=PSEG%20Essex%20Generating%20Station |title=POWER PLANTS BY COMPANY NAME |access-date=2014-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229170057/http://www.powerplantjobs.com/ppj.nsf/PowerPlants3?OpenForm&cat=2401&companyname=PSEG%20Fossil%20LLC&plantname=PSEG%20Essex%20Generating%20Station |archive-date=2014-12-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is part of the PJM Interconnection of the Eastern Interconnection grid electric transmission system.
==History== thumb|left|Original building in Kearny Meadows Ground was broken for the original Kearny Station on July 12, 1923. Thomas A. Edison helped inaugurate and synchronize this AC station in 1925. At that time it was the largest electric generating station in New Jersey. The plant originally had six coal-fired units, which were converted to oil, all of which have subsequently been retired, the last in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pseg-power-announces-retirement-of-two-units-at-kearny-nj-generating-station-54467682.html|title=PSEG Power Announces Retirement of Two Units at Kearny (NJ) Generating Station|author=PSEG Power|date=1 June 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/pseg-fossil-llc-settlement|title=PSEG Fossil L.L.C. Settlement}}</ref>
Starting in 1933, a GE Binary Mercury Steam Turbine Generator system was operated at the Kearney Station, composed of a 20-MW mercury vapour turbine and a 30-MW steam turbine.
Starting in 1967, the steam units were supplemented by peaker units, three of which have been since retired. There are ten simple-cycle peaker units, four of which burn natural gas and liquid fuel that went commercial in 2001 and the remaining six are only natural gas which went commercial 2012.
In October 2012, six new GE LM6000 natural gas-fired units capable of producing over 270 net megawatts of power were put into use.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.durrmech.com/project/pseg-kearny/|title=PSEG – Kearny Power Generating Station - Durr Mechanical Construction|access-date=2014-12-29|archive-date=2014-12-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229174551/http://www.durrmech.com/project/pseg-kearny/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = May | first = Jeff | title = PSEG to build $150 million power plant in Kearny | publisher = The Star-Ledger | date = February 1, 2008 | url = http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2008/02/pseg_to_build_150_million_powe.html | access-date = 2014-12-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Caroom | first = Eliot | title = PSEG Kearny peaker power plants nearly ready to fire up | publisher = The Star-Ledger | date = May 6, 2012 | url = http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2012/05/pseg_kearny_peaker_power_plant.html | access-date = 2014-12-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = 'Peaking' units arrive at PSEG | publisher = The Star-Ledger | date = September 28, 2011 | url = http://www.theobserver.com/?p=3431 | access-date = 2014-12-29}}</ref>
==See also== *Essex County Resource Recovery Facility *List of power stations in New Jersey
== References == {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://clui.org/section/kearny-generating-station Urban Land Use photos]
Category:Natural gas-fired power stations in New Jersey Category:Kearny, New Jersey Category:New Jersey Meadowlands District Category:Hackensack River Category:Power stations in Hudson County, New Jersey Category:Public Service Enterprise Group Category:Former coal-fired power stations in New Jersey