Deepwater Generating Station

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Deepwater Generating Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Pepco Holdings near Pennsville, New Jersey.

On July 1, 2010, Calpine Corporation's Edge Moor Power Plant and Pepco Holdings' Deepwater Generating Station began burning natural gas exclusively. All coal power will be discontinued.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Conectiv Atlantic Generation Inc.
• Parent Company: Pepco Holdings
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 82 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 82 MW (1958)
• Location: 373 North Broadway, Pennsville, NJ 08070
• GPS Coordinates: 39.682239, -75.508217
• Electricity Production: 48,849 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 157,450 tons (2005)
• SO₂ Emissions:
• SO₂ Emissions per 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
• New Jersey and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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