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Article: Small muni co-op achieves big NO subscript x reductions The Texas Municipal Power Agency is two years ahead of schedule to comply with a state mandate to reduce NO subscript x emissions from its Gibbons Creek power plant to 0.165 lbs/mmBtu or less. Two things are remarkable about TMPA's achievement: NO subscript x was reduced by modifying only the plant's combustion and fuel-delivery systems, and the initiative wasn't structured as a typical EPC project--because the Texas regulator wouldn't allow it.
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- October 1, 2003
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The cities of Bryan, Denton, Garland, and Greenville created the Texas Municipal Power Agency (TMPA) in 1977 to pool their resources in order to better cope with a perceived rise in natural gas prices. TMPA was the first entity of its kind in Texas to take advantage of a then-new state law allowing municipalities to own power plants.
Today, TMPA owns and operates the Gibbons Creek Electric Generating Station, which has one 480-MW, tangentially fired, pulverized coal unit. The unit became operational in 1983 and originally fired a locally mined, low-grade Texas lignite (Figure 1). Gibbons Creek is about 18 miles east of Bryan/College Station and roughly 90 miles north of Houston.
In 1996, ...