Herbert Wagner Generating Station
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Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station is a coal-fired power station near Curtis Bay, Maryland.
Unit 2 (136 MW) is planned for retirement in 2020.[1]
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Location
The plant is located on Fort Smallwood Road north of Orchard Beach in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, near Glen Burnie. It shares a 483-acre (195 ha) site adjacent to the Patapsco River with the Brandon Shores Generating Station.
Plant Data
- Owner: Talen Energy
- Parent Company: Riverstone Holdings
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 495 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 136 MW (1959), 359 MW (1966)
- Location: 1000 Brandon Shores Rd., Curtis Bay, MD 21226
- GPS Coordinates: 39.180833, -76.53833
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Ownership
The plant was originally constructed by a predecessor company of Constellation Energy, which was later purchased by Exelon in 2012. On August 9, 2012, Exelon announced that it had reached an agreement, subject to regulatory approvals, for the sale of the Crane Generating Station, Brandon Shores Generating Station, and Herbert Wagner Generating Station to Raven Power Holdings LLC, a newly formed portfolio company of Riverstone Holdings LLC, for approximately US$400 million. Exelon committed to divest the plants as condition for regulatory approval of its merger with Constellation Energy to alleviate concerns regarding potential market power in the regional wholesale electricity market.[2]
Talen Energy assumed ownership of the plant on June 1, 2015, under Riverstone Holdings, LLC.[3]
Emissions Data
- 2006 CO2 Emissions: 3,340,874 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions:
- 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
- 2006 NOx Emissions:
- 2005 Mercury Emissions:
Death and disease attributable to fine particle pollution from Wagner Generating Station
In 2010, Abt Associates issued a study commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, quantifying the deaths and other health effects attributable to fine particle pollution from coal-fired power plants.[4] Fine particle pollution consists of a complex mixture of soot, heavy metals, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides. Among these particles, the most dangerous are those less than 2.5 microns in diameter, which are so tiny that they can evade the lung's natural defenses, enter the bloodstream, and be transported to vital organs. Impacts are especially severe among the elderly, children, and those with respiratory disease. The study found that over 13,000 deaths and tens of thousands of cases of chronic bronchitis, acute bronchitis, asthma, congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, dysrhythmia, ischemic heart disease, chronic lung disease, and pneumonia each year are attributable to fine particle pollution from U.S. coal plant emissions. These deaths and illnesses are major examples of coal's external costs, i.e. uncompensated harms inflicted upon the public at large. Low-income and minority populations are disproportionately impacted as well, due to the tendency of companies to avoid locating power plants upwind of affluent communities. To monetize the health impact of fine particle pollution from each coal plant, Abt assigned a value of $7,300,000 to each 2010 mortality, based on a range of government and private studies. Valuations of illnesses ranged from $52 for an asthma episode to $440,000 for a case of chronic bronchitis.[5]
Table 1: Death and disease attributable to fine particle pollution from Wagner Generating Station
| Type of Impact | Annual Incidence | Valuation |
|---|---|---|
| Deaths | 22 | $160,000,000 |
| Heart attacks | 38 | $4,100,000 |
| Asthma attacks | 360 | $19,000 |
| Hospital admissions | 18 | $410,000 |
| Chronic bronchitis | 14 | $6,000,000 |
| Asthma ER visits | 16 | $6,000 |
Source: "Find Your Risk from Power Plant Pollution," Clean Air Task Force interactive table, accessed March 2011
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ Planned retirements, Sierra Club, updated March 14, 2016
- ↑ Template:Cite press release
- ↑ Corporation, Talen Energy. Talen Energy Debuts as One of the Largest Independent Power Producers in U.S..
- ↑ "The Toll from Coal: An Updated Assessment of Death and Disease from America's Dirtiest Energy Source," Clean Air Task Force, September 2010.
- ↑ "Technical Support Document for the Powerplant Impact Estimator Software Tool," Prepared for the Clean Air Task Force by Abt Associates, July 2010
- 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.
Related SourceWatch Articles
- Existing U.S. Coal Plants
- Maryland and coal
- Constellation Energy
- United States and coal
- Global warming
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