B.L. England Generating Station

B.L. England Generating Station
View of B.L. England Generating Station from the east before its demolition
Country	United States
Location	Upper Township, Cape May County, New Jersey
Coordinates	39°17′23″N 74°38′02″W / 39.28972°N 74.63389°W / 39.28972; -74.63389
Status	Demolished
Commission date	1961
Decommission date	May 1, 2019
Owner(s)	R.C. Cape May Holdings
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Coal Oil Tires
Cooling source	Great Egg Harbor River
Power generation
Nameplate capacity	450 MW
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The B.L. England Generating Station, also called Beesley's Point Generating Station, was a power plant in Upper Township, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, on the Great Egg Harbor River. The facility provided approximately 450 megawatts of generating capacity from three generating units. Two units burned coal (and up to 7 percent Tire-derived fuel) and the third unit burned bunker C oil. Its large smokestack, altered to resemble a lighthouse, contained a sulfur dioxide scrubber which removed the SO₂ from the flue gas and converted it into gypsum, which can be sold. The scrubber allowed the two coal units to use less expensive high sulfur coal from West Virginia.

The plant is visible from the Great Egg Harbor Bridge on the Garden State Parkway, and many confuse it with the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station and its hyperboloid cooling tower, which recirculates hot water to avoid discharging into Great Egg Harbor Bay and cause thermal pollution.

The plant was decommissioned on May 1, 2019 ^[1] and has been slowly being demolished, with major demolition starting on April 21, 2023.^{[2] [3]}