re: Entergy Submitts Plans to Build a Floating Power Plant in Leeville

112 MW is not a lot to replace. Entergy will have the capacity to mitigate if they needed to. They would just redirect power from other assets/substations from the grid.

I would anssume engineering systems and structures would have weather safety factors in the design for imminent forces/weather.

This technique is somewhat popular in the Caribbean islands for power production. They’re built on barges to allow the owner/operator to disconnect and transfer to another location for a more profitable opportunity. Probably not a bad idea with how volatile and political Louisiana economy can be.

Black start is an independent startup system that’s contained by the plant. Could be a generator, but these barges have trended towards using energy storage (big arse batteries to go) for this application.

Here’s a link for a project I worked on for a similar plant Siemens built in the Dominican Republic:

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