Prairie Creek Generating Station
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{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Prairie Creek Generating Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Alliant Energy near Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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2010: Alliant to close coal boilers at six sites
According to plans filed with the Minnesota Public Service Commission on November 1, 2010, Alliant Energy plans to immediately close coal-fired boilers at six sites in Iowa:[1][2]
- Sixth Street Generating Station (all units) (Cedar Rapids)
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Unit 2 (Cedar Rapids)
- Dubuque Generating Station Unit 2
- Lansing Power Station Units 2 and 3
- Milton Kapp Generating Station Unit 1 (Clinton)
- Sutherland Generating Station Unit 2 (Marshalltown)
The plan also designates two boilers at Dubuque Generating Station and another at the Sutherland Generating Station for retirement in 2015. Of this list, only one boiler (Lansing 3) is currently operational, and the replacement generation will come in significant part from running newer coal boilers at higher capacity.[1]
Plant Data
- Owner: Interstate Power and Light Company
- Parent Company: Alliant Energy
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 245 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 23 MW (1951), 50 MW (1958), 149 MW (1967), 23 MW (1997)
- Location: 3300 C St. Southwest, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
- GPS Coordinates: 41.944291, -91.63799
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- CO2 Emissions: 1,264,616 tons (2006), 836,910.3968 tons (2008)
- SO2 Emissions: 2,217.24 tons (2008)[3]
- SO2 Emissions per MWh:
- NOx Emissions: 1,750.16 tons (2008)[3]
- Mercury Emissions:
Coal Waste Sites
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Ash Pond Number 1
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Ash Pond Number 2
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Ash Pond Number 3
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Ash Pond Number 4
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Ash Pond Number 5
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Ash Pond Number 6
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Ash Pond Number 7
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Ash Pond Number 8 - Plant Drains
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Ash Pond Number 9 - Dumper Building
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Ash Pond Number 10
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Final Coal Pile Runoff Pond
- Prairie Creek Generating Station Zero Liquid Discharge Pond
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Carrie Lowry La Seur, "Alliant to Close Coal Boilers at 7 Sites Across Iowa" Plains Justice Today, Nov. 8, 2010.
- ↑ ILP Action Plant, excerpt from submitted by Interstate Light and Power to Minnesota PUC, accessed 11/26/10
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Iowa Operating Permit Application, Form 5.0, Title V Annual Emissions Summary
- 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.
