Dubuque Generating Station

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Dubuque Generating Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Alliant Energy in Dubuque, Iowa.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Interstate Power & Light Company
• Parent Company: Alliant Energy
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 81.2 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 15.0 MW (1929), 28.7 MW (1952), 37.5 MW (1959)
• Location: 920 Kerper Blvd., Dubuque, IA 52004
• GPS Coordinates: 42.503041, -90.658436
• Electricity Production: 344,295 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 514,823 tons (2005)
• SO₂ Emissions: 1,942 tons (2005)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 11.28 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions: 1,954 tons (2005)
• 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
• Alliant Energy
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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