Louisa Generating Station
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{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Louisa Generating Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by MidAmerican Energy (which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway) near Muscatine, Iowa.
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Plant Data
- Owner/Parent Company: MidAmerican Energy (owned by Berkshire Hathaway)
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 738 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 738 MW (1983)
- Location: 8602 172nd St., Muscatine, IA 52761
- GPS Coordinates: 41.48381, -90.82007
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- CO2 Emissions: 4,846,897 tons (2006), 5,136,540.92 (2008)[1]
- SO2 Emissions: 15,397 tons (2006), 2,452.97 tons (2008)[2]
- SO2 Emissions per MWh:
- NOx Emissions: 4,562 tons (2006), 4,608.97 (2008)[2]
- Mercury Emissions: 240 lb. (2005)
Louisa ranked 71st 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.[3] The data came from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available.[4]
Louisa Generating Station ranked number 71 on the list, with 382,063 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.[3]
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ Iowa Operating Permit Application, Title V Annual Emissions Summary
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Iowa Operating Permit Application, Form 5.0, Title V Annual Emissions Summary
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 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.
Related SourceWatch Articles
- Existing U.S. Coal Plants
- Iowa and coal
- MidAmerican Energy
- Berkshire Hathaway
- United States and coal
- Global warming
External Articles
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