Alloy Steam Station

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Alloy Steam Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Elkem - a Norwegian multinational metals and materials company - near Alloy, West Virginia. It powers Elkem's smelting plant.

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Plant Data

• Owner/Parent Company: Elkem
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 40 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 40 MW (1950)
• Location: Rte. 60 East, Alloy, WV 25002
• GPS Coordinates: 38.135496, -81.278721
• Electricity Production: 111,491 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 328,478 tons (2000)
• SO₂ Emissions:
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Articles and Resources

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.

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