John Deere Dubuque Power Plant

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} John Deere Dubuque Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by John Deere near Dubuque, Iowa. The plant provides power to John Deere's Dubuque agricultural machinery manufacturing facility.

Plant Data

• Owner/Parent Company: John Deere
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 14.0 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 3.5 MW (1949), 7.5 MW (1964), 3.0 MW (1989)
• Location: 18600 South John Deere Rd., Dubuque, IA 52001
• GPS Coordinates: 42.569682, -90.686265
• Electricity Production: 24,680 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 18,623 tons (2006), 97,074.46 (2008)
• SO₂ Emissions:
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• NO_x Emissions:
• 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
• Iowa and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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