Merrimack Station

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Merrimack Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Northeast Utilities near Bow, New Hampshire.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Public Service Company of New Hampshire
• Parent Company: Northeast Utilities
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 459 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 114 MW (1960), 346 MW (1968)
• Location: 97 River Rd., Bow, NH 03304
• GPS Coordinates: 43.140833, -71.46777
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• 2006 CO₂ Emissions: 3,530,530 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions: 32,726 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• 2006 NO_x Emissions: 4,966 tons
• 2005 Mercury Emissions: 130 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
• New Hampshire and coal
• Northeast Utilities
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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