Lakeside Station

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Lakeside Station is a DECOMISSIONED coal-fired power station owned and operated by the City of Springfield, Illinois. Visible below are both the Lakeside and Dallman power plants, both of which are owned by the City of Springfield. The coal waste site is Lakeside Station Ash Pond.

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Plant Data

• Owner: City Water, Light and Power
• Parent Entity: City of Springfield, Illinois
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 75.0 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 37.5 MW (1961), 37.5 MW (1965)
• Location: 3100 Stevenson Dr., Springfield, IL 62707
• GPS Coordinates: 39.755899, -89.6026
• Electricity Production: 208,451 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 264,044 tons (2005)
• SO₂ Emissions: 7,617 tons (2005)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• NO_x Emissions: 1,196 tons (2005)
• Mercury Emissions:

Coal Waste Site

• Lakeside Station Ash Pond

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
• Illinois and coal
• City Water, Light and Power
• United States and coal
• Global warming