Hercules Missouri Power Plant

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Hercules Missouri Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Ashland near Louisiana, Missouri. The plant provides power to Ashland's Louisiana fertilizer manufacturing facility.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Hercules Inc.
• Parent Company: Ashland
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 17.2 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 8.6 MW (1943), 8.6 MW (1943)
• Location: 11083 Hwy. D, Louisiana, MO 63353
• GPS Coordinates: 39.4258, -91.02533
• Electricity Production: 138,182 MWh (2006)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 227,202 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions:
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
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• 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.

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• Global warming

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