Calhoun Cogeneration Plant

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Calhoun Cogeneration Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by AbitibiBowater near Calhoun, Tennessee. The plant supplies power to AbitibiBowater's Calhoun newsprint manufacturing facility.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Bowater Newsprint Calhoun Operations
• Parent Company: AbitibiBowater
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 38.2 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 19.0 MW (1954), 19.2 MW (1954)
• Location: 5020 Hwy. 11 South, Calhoun, TN 37309
• GPS Coordinates: 35.297462, -84.757285
• Electricity Production: 452,546 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 517,929 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions: 5,326 tons (2002)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 23.54 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions: 3,254 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.

Related SourceWatch Articles

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

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