Fernandina Beach Mill (WestRock)

{{#badges: CoalSwarm}} Fernandina Beach Power Plant was a 118.4-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station owned and operated by Westrock in Fernandina Beach, Florida. Both units were converted from coal to using wood waste solids. The plant provides power and steam to the Westrock Fernandina Beach paperboard manufacturing facility.

Plant Data

• Owner: Westrock
• Parent Company: Westrock
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 118.4 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: Unit 6: 74.4 MW (1982), Unit 5: 44 MW (1988)
• Location: North 8th St., Fernandina Beach, FL 32034
• GPS Coordinates: 30.681589, -81.45622
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• Coal type: Bituminous
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• Unit Retirements: Units 5 and 6 were converted from coal to wood waste solids.

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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.

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