Lafarge Alpena Power Plant

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Lafarge Alpena Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Lafarge in Alpena, Michigan. The plant provides power to Lafarge's Alpena cement manufacturing facility.

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Plant Data

• Owner/Parent Company: Lafarge Group
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 47.2 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 12.0 MW (1952), 10.0 MW (1955), 11 MW (1991), 11 MW (1994), 3.2 MW (1999)
• Location: 1435 Ford Ave., Alpena, MI 49707
• GPS Coordinates: 45.069826, -83.40875
• Electricity Production: 297,632 MWh
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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
• Michigan and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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