Cheswick Power Station

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Cheswick Power Station is a coal-fired power station near Springdale, Pennsylvania.

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Plant Data

• Owner: GenOn
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 637 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 637 MW (1970)
• Location: 411 Pittsburg St., Springdale, PA 15144
• GPS Coordinates: 40.538333, -79.789722
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• 2006 CO₂ Emissions: 2,818,931 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions: 32,373 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• 2006 NO_x Emissions: 4,221 tons
• 2005 Mercury Emissions: 180 lb.

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.

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