Invista Waynesboro Power Plant

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Waynesboro Virginia Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Invista (which was spun off from DuPont in 2003) in Waynesboro, Virginia. The plant provides power to Invista's Waynesboro synthetic textiles manufacturing facility. Invista is a subsidiary of Koch Industries.

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Plant Data

• Owner/Parent Company: Invista
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 12.4 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 3.0 MW (1929), 3.0 MW (1929), 3.0 MW (1929), 3.4 MW (1929)
• Location: 400 Du Pont Blvd., Waynesboro, VA 22980
• GPS Coordinates: 38.060311, -78.88363
• Electricity Production: 14,622 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees: 632

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions:
• CO Emissions: 67.1 tons (2002)
• SO₂ Emissions: 1,232 tons (2002)
• NO_x Emissions: 663 tons (2002)
• Mercury Emissions: 1.9 pounds (2003)

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
• Virginia and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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