Henderson Station (MS)

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Henderson Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by the Greenwood Utilities Commission in Greenwood, Mississippi.

The power station is planned for retirement in May 2018.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Greenwood Utilities Commission
• Parent Company: City of Greenwood, MS
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 32.6 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 12.6 MW (1960), 20.0 MW (1967)
• Location: 2107 River Road Ext., Greenwood, MS 38930
• GPS Coordinates: 33.517006, -90.208583
• Electricity Production: 48,631 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 44,697 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions: 467 tons (2002)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 19.21 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions: 66 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
• Mississippi and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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