Argus Cogeneration Plant

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Argus Cogeneration Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Nirma - an Indian multinational chemicals and minerals corporation - near Trona, California. The plant provides power to Nirma's Searles Valley Minerals soda ash processing facility.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Searles Valley Minerals
• Parent Company: Nirma
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 55.0 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 27.5 MW (1978), 27.5 MW (1978)
• Location: 13200 Main St., Trona, CA 93592
• GPS Coordinates: 35.764586, -117.382726
• Electricity Production: 349,966 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 1,055,819 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions: 110 tons (2002)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 0.63 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions:
• 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.

Related SourceWatch Articles

• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• California and coal
• Nirma
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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