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'''Joppa Steam Plant''' is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by [[Ameren]] near Joppa, Illinois.
 
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==Plant Data==
 
==Plant Data==

Revision as of 04:37, 31 January 2010

{{#badges: Climate change |CoalSwarm}} Joppa Steam Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Ameren near Joppa, Illinois.


Plant Data

  • Owner: Electric Energy, Inc.
  • Parent Company: Ameren
  • Plant Nameplate Capacity: 1,100 MW
  • Units and In-Service Dates: 183 MW (1953), 183 MW (1953), 183 MW (1954), 183 MW (1954), 183 MW (1955), 183 MW (1955)
  • Location: 2100 Portland Rd., Joppa, IL 62953
  • GPS Coordinates: 37.21693, -88.866096
  • Coal Consumption:
  • Coal Source:
  • Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

  • 2006 CO2 Emissions: 9,318,296 tons
  • 2006 SO2 Emissions: 26,408 tons
  • 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
  • 2006 NOx Emissions: 5,705 tons
  • 2005 Mercury Emissions: 355 lb.

Joppa ranked 75th on list of most polluting power plants in terms of coal waste

In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of coal combustion waste (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill.[1] The data came from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available.[2]

Joppa Steam Plant ranked number 75 on the list, with 366,675 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.[1]

Articles and Resources

Sources

  1. Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Sue Sturgis, "Coal's ticking timebomb: Could disaster strike a coal ash dump near you?," Institute for Southern Studies, January 4, 2009.
  2. TRI Explorer, EPA, accessed January 2009.

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