Fort Wainwright Power Plant

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Fort Wainwright Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by the U.S. Army on Fort Wainwright near Fairbanks, Alaska.

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Plant Data

• Owner: U.S. Army
• Parent Entity: U.S. Government
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 22.5 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 2.5 MW (1945), 5.0 MW (1955), 5.0 MW (1955), 5.0 MW (1955), 5.0 MW (1989)
• Location: 1060 Gaffney Rd., Fort Wainwright, AK 99703
• GPS Coordinates: 64.8254, -147.6490
• Electricity Production: 105,389 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 393,110 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions:
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• NO_x Emissions:
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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
• Alaska and coal
• U.S. Army
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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