Merrimack Station

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Merrimack Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Northeast Utilities near Bow, New Hampshire. One unit of the plant was built in 1960, the other in 1968. In 2008, the future of the plant became the subject of controversy when Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSCNH) revealed that the projected cost of new scrubbers had increased from $250 million to $457 million.

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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:
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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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