Kyger Creek Station
{{#badges: Climate change |CoalSwarm}} Kyger Creek Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation near Gallipolis, Ohio.
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Plant Data
- Owner/Parent Company: Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (43.4% AEP, 20.5% FirstEnergy, and other companies)
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 1,086 MW
- Units and In-Service Dates: 217 MW (1955), 217 MW (1955), 217 MW (1955), 217 MW (1955), 217 MW (1955)
- Location: 5758 Ohio State Rte. 7 North, Gallipolis, OH 45631
- GPS Coordinates: 38.914247, -82.129058
- Coal Consumption:
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- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- 2006 CO2 Emissions: 7,167,983 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions: 67,157 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
- 2006 NOx Emissions: 17,863 tons
- 2005 Mercury Emissions: 385 lb.
Kyger Creek ranked 29th on list of most polluting power plants in terms of coal waste
In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of coal combustion waste (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill.[1] The data came from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available.[2]
Kyger Creek Station ranked 29th on the list, with 1,356,475 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.[1]
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Sue Sturgis, "Coal's ticking timebomb: Could disaster strike a coal ash dump near you?," Institute for Southern Studies, January 4, 2009.
- ↑ TRI Explorer, EPA, accessed January 2009.
- 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.
Related SourceWatch Articles
- Existing U.S. Coal Plants
- Ohio and coal
- Ohio Valley Electric Corporation
- American Electric Power
- FirstEnergy
- United States and coal
- Global warming
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