A.E. Staley Decatur Power Plant

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A.E. Staley Decatur Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by the British agroprocessing multinational Tate & Lyle near Decatur, Illinois. It is a cogeneration plant that powers Tate & Lyle's Decatur corn milling plant.

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Plant Data

• Owner: A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company
• Parent Company: Tate & Lyle
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 62 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 62 MW (1989)
• Location: 2200 East Eldorado St., Decatur, IL 62521
• GPS Coordinates: 39.849301, -88.931
• Electricity Production: 370,854 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 592,098 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions: 4,747 tons (2002)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 25.60 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions: 852 tons (2002)
• Mercury Emissions:

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External Resources

• 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.
• Global Coal Plant Tracker

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