UNC Chapel Hill Cogeneration Facility

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} The UNC-Chapel Hill Cogeneration Facility is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill near UNC campus in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The plant is to cease operation by 2020.

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Plant Data

• Owner: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Parent Company: State of North Carolina
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 28.0 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 28.0 MW (1991)
• Location: 501 West Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, NC 27516
• GPS Coordinates: 35.906289, -79.062244
• Electricity Production: 90,103 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 312,075 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions: 147 tons (2002)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 3.26 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions: 513 tons (2002)
• Mercury Emissions:

Campus to end coal use and divestment

In 2010 school Chancellor Holden Thorp committed to stop burning coal at the school's campus cogeneration plant by 2020. In the fall of 2011 UNC Chapel Hill announced they would eliminate coal out of university endowments.

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
• North Carolina and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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