Chena Power Plant

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Chena Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Aurora Energy LLC in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Plant Data

• Owner/Parent Company: Aurora Energy LLC (based in Fairbanks)
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 29.0 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 1.5 MW (1952), 2.5 MW (1952), 5.0 MW (1952), 20.0 MW (1975)
• Location: 1204 1st Ave., Fairbanks, AK 99701
• GPS Coordinates: 64.847462, -147.733923
• Electricity Production: 180,995 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions:
• SO₂ Emissions: 188 tons (2002)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 2.08 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions: 679 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
• Alaska and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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