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Electricity Supply <br /> Conventona I Resources <br /> MMPA maintains a portfolio of resources to provide electricity to <br /> its members. Conventional resources include a mix of owned and <br /> contracted generation. These resources include: <br /> Faribault Energy Park <br /> Faribault Energy Park goes far beyond being to freeze protection systems for the plant <br /> simply a power plant. The 300 MW combined- and improvements to the facility's chemical <br /> cycle facility in Faribault, Minnesota was built feed system. <br /> as a model of environmental responsibility The facility's grounds, including walking trails, <br /> and innovation. educational displays, gazebo, and rainwater <br /> The plant runs primarily on natural gas but collection ponds, are open to the public during <br /> uses fuel oil as a backup fuel source. In 2013, daylight hours. Students and residents are <br /> the Agency successfully completed a major welcome to tour the facility and are able to <br /> maintenance outage on FEP's steam turbine view the control room and the steam turbine <br /> generator (STG). This outage was part of the from the observation room.The plant also hosts <br /> Agency's preventative maintenance program the Agency's Energy Education Program, <br /> and, in addition to confirming the good which saw approximately 1,600 fourth grade <br /> condition of the steam turbine, also improved students from MMPA member and project host <br /> the plant's output and heat rate. In 2013, the communities visit FEP in 2013. Visitors are <br /> plant won a second consecutive Best Practices able to use the facility's 35 acres of park-like <br /> Award from Combined Cycle Journal. The award wetlands as a recreation area and even drop <br /> recognized the Agency's innovative approach a fishing line into one of the ponds. <br /> Not Just a Plant, But a Park <br /> t-- 4N-r, <br /> � •- _{'''.. -.*:0.=SSi*..'t,''''43' # ...;•==-^'e.., ..- <br /> 2013 MMPA Annual Report 11 <br />