1,689 Comments for Eagle River Power Station

AWESOME SHOTS!!! I can't decide if they remind me of the movie Metropolis or of a more apocalyptic like Mad Max.

I LOVE the architecture of the building!! Beautiful.

Been there!!!! heheheh

That would have to be one serious LOUD speaker to be heard over all the machinery.

So, is the lonely air compressor the power plant equivalent of the lonely chair? I have seen 2 or 3 of them so far in your power plant photos.

i'm drawn to this place and I don't know why -I keep revisiting this picture for some dam reason and I just don't get it ! maybe I should go there - --lost

It is a condenser. It condenses the steam that leaves the turbine.

Some of these guys are right, they are reactors on the "c" Phase of the three phase generation bank . The "C" with a o and a line through it stands for "C" phase.

As Vinton and EE have already mentioned above , it is a synchroscope to "synch" the main generator to the grid.Most modern power plants run at 3600 rpm at the turbine -generator, with a two pole generator producing three phase power.

Looks like a bank of batteries for dc backup in the power plant. Most plants have a dc backup for lighting should they lose power. Also, dc power is used for UPS(Uninterruptable power supplies) to run some of the controls for the plant itself. The picture of a frame or two ago of the Mg sets might be the dc charging sets for the battery room in this picture. I don't believe that they are ac to dc frequency changers from the main generator.

Cs is right , those are stay bolts for the doors on the suface condenser , under the turbine-generator unit. I have worked in a power plant for the last 28 years and hope to be here a few more years before retiring. You are probably looking at the rear of the condenser, and the shot that you saw with the man in it was the front side of this unit.

thank you for keeping this avalable.

That's no expansion joint. That's a space station...

Such a lovely shot and such a wonderfull set i may just have to go visit this place myself somtime this summer :)

did ya push any