PPL, formerly known as Pennsylvania Power and Light, is an energy utilities company headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It currently serves nearly 1.4 million customers in 29 different counties and maintains more than 48 thousand miles of power lines in central and eastern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
The majority of PPL\u2019s power plants burn oil or natural gas, however, some of their facilities are used for coal-fired electrical generation. One of those facilities is located in York, Pennsylvania and occupies a large portion of an island on the Susquehanna River.<\/p>\n
The Brunner Island Steam Electric Station has three major units, with generating capacities of 334 MW, 390 MW, and 705 MW . In 2005, the plant manager announced that the Brunner Island facility would begin installing scrubbers at the plant to remove thousands of tons of sulfur from the environment. The scrubbers were installed in 2009, along with brand new cooling towers. Now, Brunner Island discharges all of its waste heat into the brand new cooling towers.<\/p>\n
The cooling towers dramatically improve environmental output of pollutants and are an effective way of discharging waste quickly and easily. But, since they\u2019re located on the roof of the Brunner plant, workers needed an efficient method for replacing parts and performing routine maintenance.<\/p>\n
In the past, plant managers would rent a boom crane to reach the pipes on top of the building and perform maintenance. But, as maintenance needs and costs began to slowly increase, the team realized they need to find a more reliable, cost-effective solution that would allow workers to maintain the cooling towers and scrubbers as needed. That\u2019s when they reached out to a Spanco third party distributor to assess their needs and evaluate a potential solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1527","case_study","type-case_study","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n