Hibbing Power Plant

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Hibbing Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by the Hibbing Public Utilities Commission in Hibbing, Minnesota.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Hibbing Public Utilities Commission
• Parent Company: City of Hibbing, MN
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 35.9 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 10.0 MW (1965), 19.5 MW (1985), 6.4 MW (1996)
• Location: 1832 6th Ave. East, Hibbing, MN 55746
• GPS Coordinates: 47.429675, -92.934521
• Electricity Production: 56,024 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 157,260 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions: 257 tons (2002)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 9.17 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions: 283 tons (2002)
• Mercury Emissions:

Articles and Resources

Sources

• Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
• Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
• Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
• Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.
• NETL Coal Power Plant Database, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2007.
• AirData Query Database, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed April 2009.

Related SourceWatch Articles

• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Minnesota and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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