# Brame Energy Center

MISO asset profile · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/brame-energy-center

Cleco Power LLC - Rapides County - MISO

Brame Energy Center, located at 275 Rodemacher Road in Lena, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, is a regulated three-generator thermal power facility with approximately 1,707.3 MW of EIA nameplate capacity. Generator 1 (Nesbitt Unit 1) is a 445.5 MW natural-gas steam turbine commissioned in June 1975 and 100% owned by Cleco Power. Generator 3 (Madison Unit 3) is a 703.8 MW petroleum-coke circulating-fluidized-bed steam turbine commissioned in February 2010, 100% owned by Cleco Power, capable of using petroleum coke, coal, natural gas, and biomass. The facility occupies 6,000 acres and uses Rodemacher Lake as a cooling source. Unit 2 is on a current compliance path to cease coal combustion and convert to natural gas by December 31, 2028, with engineering and EPC work underway. Unit 3 has an announced plan to convert from coal-based to natural-gas/petroleum-coke co-firing operations. All three units currently operate and participate in the MISO electricity market.

## Metrics

- **Nameplate capacity:** 1707.3 MW — Canonical EIA plant baseline.
- **Registry anchor:** Plant 6190 — plant-6190

## Facts

- **Technology:** Petroleum Coke, Natural Gas Steam Turbine, Conventional Steam Coal
- **Operator:** Cleco Power LLC

## Related parties

- **Equipment supplier:** Hitachi Ltd. / Hitachi Power Systems America Ltd. — Steam-turbine generator supplier and technical-services provider for Unit 3
- **Equipment supplier:** Foster Wheeler Corp. / Sumitomo SHI FW — CFB boiler and emissions-control equipment supplier for Madison Unit 3 ([source](http://shi-fw.com/our-solutions/energy-generation/circulating-fluidized-bed-boilers))
- **Parent company:** Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC — Corporate parent of Cleco Power LLC ([source](https://www.cleco.com/about/our-company))

## Sources

- [cleco.com](http://cleco.com/about/our-company) — cleco.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [stonepeak.com](http://stonepeak.com/news/stonepeak-and-bernhard-capital-partners-to-acquire-cleco) — stonepeak.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [cleco.com](https://www.cleco.com/about/generation-assets/regulated-facilities/brame-energy-center) — cleco.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.

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Website: [Cleco Power LLC](https://www.cleco.com/)

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