Weston Unit 4
{{#badges: CoalSwarm}} This project is being built by Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, south of Wausau, WI. Dairyland Power has a 150 MW share of this plant. Construction began in Oct. 2004, and WPS expects the plant to be online by June 2008.[1] Currently, the plant is in the two month initial start-up phase. The plant produced electricity on March 20, 2008. [2] The Sierra Club has contested the project’s air permits; the administrative judge assigned to the case agreed that more stringent pollution controls were legally required, but refused to halt construction of the plant. The Sierra Club has appealed the case to the Wisconsin state court.[3]
On February 12, 2009, the Court affirmed the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources's approval of the air permit. According to the Sierra Club, they are considering appealing the case in the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.[4]
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Project Details
Sponsor: Wisconsin Public Service Corporation
Location: Wausau, Marathon County, WI
Capacity: 500 MW
Type: Pulverized coal
Projected in service: 2008
Status: Construction
Financing
Citizen Groups
- Wisconsin Sierra Club, Shahla Werner, join.muir.chapter [at] sierraclub.org
- Clean Wisconsin, Mark Redsten
Resources
References
- ↑ Wisconsin Public Service Corporation website, accessed January 2008.
- ↑ [1], accessed April 2008.
- ↑ "Stopping the Coal Rush", Sierra Club, accessed January 2008. (This is a Sierra Club list of new coal plant proposals.)
- ↑ "Stopping the Coal Rush", Sierra Club, accessed May 2009. (This is a Sierra Club list of new coal plant proposals.)
Related SourceWatch Articles
- Wisconsin and coal
- Coal plant litigation
- United States and coal
- Carbon Capture and Storage
- Existing U.S. Coal Plants
- US proposed coal plants (both active and cancelled)
- Coal plants cancelled in 2007
- Coal plants cancelled in 2008
- State-by-state guide to information on coal in the United States (or click on the map)
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External links
- "Tracking New Coal-Fired Power Plants", National Energy Technology Lab, May 2007, page 22. (PDF)
- Wisconsin Public Service Corporation website
