Tuscola Station

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Tuscola Station is a coal-fired power station jointly owned and operated by Duke Energy and Veolia near Tuscola, Illinois.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Trigen-Cinergy Sol-Tuscola LLC
• Parent Company: Duke Energy (50%) and Veolia (50%)
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 18.0 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 6.0 MW (1953), 6.0 MW (1953), 6.0 MW (1953)
• Location: 625 East U.S. Rte. 36, Tuscola, IL 61953
• GPS Coordinates: 39.797901, -88.348898
• Electricity Production: 83,065 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption: 178,000 tons (2005)
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 326,017 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions:
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• NO_x Emissions: 390 tons (2005)
• Mercury Emissions:

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
• Duke Energy
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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