McDonough Steam Generating Plant
{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Jack McDonough Steam Generating Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Southern Company near Smyrna, Georgia.
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Plant Data
- Owner: Georgia Power Company
- Parent Company: Southern Company
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 598 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 299 MW (1963), 299 MW (1964)
- Location: 5551 South Cobb Dr., Smyrna, GA 30080
- GPS Coordinates: 33.822806, -84.475667
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- 2006 CO2 Emissions: 3,705,401 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions: 28,835 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
- 2006 NOx Emissions: 4,286 tons
- 2005 Mercury Emissions: 116 lb.
McDonough ranked 84th 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]
McDonough Steam Generating Plant ranked number 84 on the list, with 318,051 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.
- Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.
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