### Fayette Power Project (FPP) is a three

- unit, coal

- fired power plant in Fayette County, Texas. LCRA and Austin Energy co

- own units 1 and 2, and LCRA owns Unit 3. The plant provides about 1,625 megawatts of electricity and helps LCRA and its wholesale electric customers provide power for more than 1 million Central Texans.

Fuel Source: FPP uses low

- sulfur coal from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, which burns cleaner than other types of coal or lignite. The coal is delivered by rail.

Emissions: LCRA has taken steps to upgrade and operate FPP more efficiently so it produces fewer emi ssions per kilowatt

- hour. FPP has a history of operating in an environmentally responsible manner

. Sulfur Dioxide (SO 2 )

o LCRA and Austin Energy invested about $400 million to add flue

- gas desulfurization equipment or “scrubbers” that are removing more than 95 percent of SO 2 emissions from the plant’s two older units, which have been in operation since 1979 and 1980.

o The scrubber for Unit 1 became operational in January 2011. The scrubber for Unit 2 came on

- line in March 2011.

o In addition, LCRA in spri ng 2012 completed upgrading the scrubber on Unit 3 , which was included when the unit was built in 1988.

o Residents and passers

- by will see plumes of water vapor from the scrubber chimney for units 1 and 2 and the chimney for Unit 3. That means the scrubbers are doing their job of removing almost all of the sulfur dioxide emissions from the plant

. Nitrogen Oxides (NO x )

o In 2005, FPP completed improvements to the boilers on each of the plant’s three units to reduce plantwide NO x emissions by 65 to 70 percent, a goal that the facility met six years before it was required. 

# Fayette Power Project

Efficient, Reliable, Environmentally Responsible

Reliable and Efficient

International benchmarking studies have shown FPP operations are among the best in its peer group. FPP has been recognized for high performance in safety, reliability, cost, efficiency and continuous operation.



### Environmentally Responsible

LCRA and its customers are committed to providing power in an environmentally responsible

manner. E mission

reduction scrubbers help the plant maintain its position among the cleaner coal

- fired power plants currently operating i n Texas.Mercury (Hg)

o The scrubbers on units 1 , 2 and 3 are removing about 20 to 25 percent of mercury emissions from each unit

. o LCRA is in the process of install ing technology to further reduce mercury emissions. The pro cess will enable LCRA to meet new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for allowable limits of mercury and particulate matter. Particulate matter includes both

s olid particles and liquid droplets found in emissions.

o Once the project is complete, LCRA expects at least 80 percent of mercury will be removed from the flue

- gas of each of the three coal

- fired units at FPP. LCRA is on target to complete the project to me et the EPA compliance deadline of April 2015.

Coal Combustion Products and Storage Storage: FPP uses a dry process for storage, processing and disposal for all of the ash produced in the coal

- burning process. In 2012, FPP closed the ash pond where it had stored a portion of the coal combustion products before the power plant transitioned to a dry system. FPP no longer u ses the ash pond for storage.

Recycling: Most of the coal combustion products from FPP are recycled and used for products such as cement, ready

- mix concrete, road base, wallboard and other construction materials.

 FPP uses an external contractor to market coal combustion products and has sold

mo re than 3.9 million tons of these products since 2001.

 Over the past 12 years, FPP has sold an average of 85 percent of the total products it produced.

 During some years, the plant has been able to sell more than 100 percent of the products produced by pu lling from previously stored resources.

 Due to economic conditions and the effect on the construction industry, sales dropped to an average of 71 percent during the 24 months ending December 2012

.

 The coal combustion products recycling program at FPP rece ived a national Coal Combustion Products Partnership award in 2005.

Community Involvement: Most of the plant’s employees live in the Fayette County region. FPP serves the community by making its used

- oil collection center open to the public, participatin g in an annual park clean

- up event and providing holiday meals for families that might otherwise go without

.