Radford Army Ammunition Power Plant

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Radford Army Ammunition Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by the U.S. Army near Radford, Virginia.

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Plant Data

• Owner: U.S. Army
• Parent Entity: U.S. Government
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 24.0 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 6.0 MW (1990), 6.0 MW (1990), 6.0 MW (1990), 6.0 MW (1990)
• Location: State Rte. 114, Radford, VA 24141
• GPS Coordinates: 37.183194,-80.554555
• Electricity Production: 39,189 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
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• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

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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
• Virginia and coal
• U.S. Army
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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