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Click on the locations shown on the Utah map for plant details:
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|40.086896, -109.271671~Bonanza Power Plant~Click '''[[Bonanza Power Plant|here]]''' for more information.;
39.727222, -110.863333~Carbon Power Plant~Click '''[[Carbon Power Plant|here]]''' for more information.;
40.9131, -112.7342~Desert Power Plant~Click '''[[Desert Power Plant|here]]''' for more information.;
39.1667, -111.0261~Hunter Power Plant~Click '''[[Hunter Power Plant|here]]''' for more information.;
39.378222, -111.079722~Huntington Power Plant~Click '''[[Huntington Power Plant|here]]''' for more information.;
39.512083, -112.58395~Intermountain Power Station~Click '''[[Intermountain Power Station|here]]''' for more information.;
39.546133, -110.389422~Sunnyside Cogeneration Facility~Click '''[[Sunnyside Cogeneration Facility|here]]''' for more information.;
40.722, -112.202~Utah Smelter Power Plant~Click '''[[Utah Smelter Power Plant|here]]''' for more information.;
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SW: →Existing coal plants: maps sentence
==Existing coal plants==
Utah had 16 coal-fired generating units at 8 locations in 2005, with 5,080 MW of capacity - representing 74.0% of the state's total electric generating capacity. Oklahoma had 15 coal-fired generating units at 7 locations in 2005, with 5,720 MW of capacity - representing 26.6% of the state's total electric generating capacity.<ref name="EIA"/><ref>Environmental Integrity Project, [http://www.dirtykilowatts.org/Dirty_Kilowatts2007.pdf "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants"], July 2007.</ref><ref>[http://carma.org/dig Dig Deeper], Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed June 2008.</ref>
Here is a list of coal power plants in Utah with capacity over 400 MW:<ref name="EIA"/><ref>Environmental Integrity Project, [http://www.dirtykilowatts.org/Dirty_Kilowatts2007.pdf "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants"], July 2007.</ref><ref>[http://carma.org/dig Dig Deeper], Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed June 2008.</ref>
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These 4 plants represent 90.7% of Utah's coal energy generating capacity, 59.7% of the state's ''total'' CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, and 33.2% of its ''total'' SO<sub>2</sub> emissions.<ref name="eRedux"/>
''For a map of existing coal plants in the state, see the bottom of this page.''
===[[Utah Smelter Power Plant]] to stop burning coal at 3 of its 4 units===
