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 proposed retiring its two coal-fired units at the Clark Station 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 proposal will be decided on by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission by the middle of December, 2010. The company originally stated it would consider using biomass to replace the coal at the plant, but later stated that it would cost too much to run the units on biomass.[1]
On December 15 2010, the Public Utilities Commission approved Black Hills Energy's plan to close its coal-fired power plant in Canon City as well as an associated rate increase for customers estimated at about 5 percent. Black Hills opted to expand its gas-fired plant presently under construction in Pueblo to replace the load generated by the Clark plant. The Pueblo plant is expected to be operational by the end of 2012, and could replace the Canon City plant immediately at that point.[2]
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.
- ↑ "PUC approves closure of Canon City plant" The Pueblo Chieftain, December 16, 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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- Existing U.S. Coal Plants
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- United States and coal
- Global warming
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