UA Fairbanks Power Plant

{{#badges: CoalSwarm}} Ben J. Atkinson Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by the University of Alaska on UA-Fairbanks campus in Fairbanks, Alaska.

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Plant Data

• Owner: University of Alaska
• Parent Company: State of Alaska
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 13.0 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 1.5 MW (1964), 1.5 MW (1964), 10.0 MW (1981)
• Location: 802 Alumni Dr., Fairbanks, AK 99709
• GPS Coordinates: 64.854011, -147.822277
• Electricity Production: 58,212 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 39,698 tons (2004)
• SO₂ Emissions: 173 tons (2002)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 5.94 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions: 234 tons (2002)
• 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

• Campus coal plants
• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Alaska and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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