Clark Station
{{#badges: CoalSwarm}} W.N. Clark Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Aquila in Canon City, Colorado.
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Closure Planned for W.N. Clark Station
It was announced in the fall of 2010 that Black Hills Energy, which owns Aquila, proposed retiring its two coal-fired units in Canon City and would build a unit in Pueblo, Colorado that would be powered by natural gas. The retirement would be part of the company's proposal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. The company originally stated it would consider biomass, but later stated that it would cost too much to run the units on biomass.[1]
Plant Data
- Owner/Parent Company: Aquila
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 43.7 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 18.7 MW (1955), 25.0 MW (1959)
- Location: 550 West U.S. Hwy. 50, Canon City, CO 81212
- GPS Coordinates: 38.434745, -105.250233
- Electricity Production: 290,576 MWh (2005)
- Coal Consumption: 171,000 tons (2005)
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- CO2 Emissions: 420,159 tons (2006)
- SO2 Emissions: 1,463 tons (2002)
- SO2 Emissions per MWh: 10.07 lb/MWh
- NOx Emissions: 1,057 tons (2002)
- Mercury Emissions:
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ "Colo. hears on utility's emissions-reduction plan" Associated Press, November 20, 2010.
- 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.
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