Back in the spring of 2022, we had the privilege to tour this magnificent 16.5MW power plant in Mazeppa, Alberta Canada. Composed of five 3.3MW Jenbacher reciprocating natural gas generators, this highly engineered and sound-attenuated plant is truly a symphony of power. While no longer on the market, its future use will provide much-needed electricity to the grid.
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Full Video Transcript
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Hi, I’m Kameron Anderson, President of Crusader Joint Ventures. My team and I just finished loading up two 1-megawatt natural gas generators that we transacted on the IronHub platform and shipped stateside for a Bitcoin mining operation. This afternoon, we visited the Mazappa gas plant, which is currently being dismantled, cleaned up, and returned to farmland. It’s good to see that happening, but that’s not why we came.
We came for this beauty right here: five 3.3-megawatt Jenbacher natural gas reciprocating engines. I’m really excited to see this—it’s something crazy. Let’s go check it out.
Originally manufactured in 2014, each generator is powered by this green beauty, a 4,500-horsepower, 20-cylinder Jenbacher engine. It’s powering a 3300 kilowatt, 13,800-volt grid-connected generator, all set up in individual containment pods. Look at how thick that door-jam is — everything in here is heavy and thick because it’s noise attenuated.
We’re in a sensitive area here, and they spared no expense in keeping the noise down. Inside this giant building, every door you see along the way has an engine and a genset inside its own compartment to keep the noise down.
Another fun fact I learned today is that everything here came from Austria — literally everything except the cement floor we’re walking on was in a shipping container and was shipped directly from Austria.
There you have it: 16.5 megawatts of natural gas reciprocating engine power generation. We’ve got the transformers, the electrical gear, the coolers—the whole power generation setup.
The most used engine in this entire package has 5,500 hours – all of the other Jenbacher natural gas generators has less than that.
No matter how you cut it, this represents an incredible power generation opportunity.
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