Abitibi Snowflake Power Plant

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Abitibi Snowflake Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by AbitibiBowater near Snowflake, Arizona. It powers AbitibiBowater's Snowflake pulp and paper mill.

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Plant Data

• Owner/Parent Company: AbitibiBowater
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 70.5 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 27.2 MW (1961), 43.3 MW (1974)
• Location: Hwy. 277, 15 miles west of Snowflake, AZ 85937
• GPS Coordinates: 34.505389, -110.334755
• Electricity Production: 412,504 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 887,556 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions: 1,519 tons (2002)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 7.36 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions: 1,857 tons (2002)
• Mercury Emissions:

Articles and Resources

Sources

• 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

Related SourceWatch Articles

• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Arizona and coal
• AbitibiBowater
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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