Northampton Generating Plant
{{#badges: CoalSwarm}} Northampton Generating Plant is a coal-fired power station in Northampton, Pennsylvania.
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Location
The Northampton facility is located at the site of the former Universal Atlas Cement Co., for many years the world's largest cement plant.[1]
Plant Data
- Owner: Northampton Generating Company L.P.
- Parent Company: National Energy & Gas Transmission
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 134 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 134 MW (1995)
- Location: 1 Horwith Dr., Northampton, PA 18067
- GPS Coordinates: 40.691111, -75.47916
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees: 45[1]
History
The Northampton Generating Plant is a 134-megawatt (nameplate capacity) cogeneration facility that provides electricity to Metropolitan Energy and process steam for use in Newstech's recycled paper mill. It is fueled by anthracite waste coal and petroleum coke. The plant is owned by Northampton Generating Company L.P., an affiliate of National Energy & Gas Transmission, Inc.[1]
According to the Sierra Club, the plant is unique in that won an award as a "clean power plant" from the state in 1996, despite being ranked as one of the dirtiest power plants in the United States in 2002.[2]
Emissions Data
- 2006 CO2 Emissions: 969,773 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions:
- 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
- 2006 NOx Emissions:
- 2005 Mercury Emissions:
New Jersey lawsuit
On February 7th, 2007 the state of New Jersey took legal action against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to respond when the state objected to a permit renewal application from a coal-fired plant in Portland, Pa., run by Reliant Energy Inc.[3]
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Northampton Generating Plant," National Energy & Gas Transmission website, accessed Sep 2017
- ↑ "Stopping the Coal Rush", Sierra Club, accessed February 2009.
- ↑ "Stopping the Coal Rush", Sierra Club, accessed February 2009.
- 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.
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