Bergen Generating Station is a

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-fired

power plant A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the electricity generation, generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electr ...

located in

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. The plant is owned and operated by Parkway Generation, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of ArcLight Energy Partners Fund VII, L.P. It is adjacent to the Little Ferry railyard, within the

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, on the banks of

Overpeck Creek Overpeck Creek is a tributary of the Hackensack River, approximately long, in Bergen County in northeastern New Jersey in the United States. The lower broad mouth of the creek is part of the extended tidal estuary of the lower Hackensack and of t ...

, near its confluence with the

Hackensack River The Hackensack River is a river, about 45 miles (72 km) long, in the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, emptying into Newark Bay, a back chamber of New York Harbor. The watershed of the river includes part of the suburban ar ...

. The plant supplies electricity to

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and, via the

Hudson Project The Hudson Project is a 345 kV AC underground and submarine power cable system which supplies electric power to New York City from the Bergen Generating Station, in Ridgefield, New Jersey. The cable system was laid by Anbaric Development Partner ...

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. Originally fueled by coal it was converted to heavy fuel and gas in 1970. The power plant uses a closed loop cooling system, which eliminates the need to withdraw water from the Hackensack River for cooling. The

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for the power plant uses treated wastewater from the nearby Bergen County Utilities Authority

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in Little Ferry, thereby eliminating the need to use

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for cooling.

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