Cherokee Station

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Cherokee Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Xcel Energy near Denver, Colorado.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Public Service Company of Colorado
• Parent Company: Xcel Energy
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 801 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 125 MW (1957), 125 MW (1959), 170 MW (1962), 381 MW (1968)
• Location: 6198 Franklin St., Denver, CO 80216
• GPS Coordinates: 39.807697, -104.964996
• Coal Consumption:
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• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• 2006 CO₂ Emissions: 5,468,495 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions: 7,116 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• 2006 NO_x Emissions: 10,203 tons
• 2005 Mercury Emissions: 119 lb.

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.

Related SourceWatch Articles

• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Colorado and coal
• Xcel Energy
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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