Utah Smelter Power Plant

{{#badges: CoalSwarm}} Utah Smelter Power Plant was a 182.0-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station owned and operated by Rio Tinto near Magna, Utah.

Location

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Plant Data

• Owner: Kennecott Utah Copper Corp.
• Parent Company: Rio Tinto
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 182.0 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: Unit 1: 50.0 MW (1943), Unit 2: 25.0 MW (1943), Unit 3: 25.0 MW (1946), Unit 4: 82.0 MW (1958)
• Location: Highway 201, Magna, UT 84044
• GPS Coordinates: 40.712008, -112.122205
• Technology: Subcritical
• Coal type: Bituminous
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source: Skyline Complex (Wolverine Fuels)
• Number of Employees:
• Unit Retirements: Units 1, 2 & 3 were retired in October 2016, Unit 4 was retired in May 2019.

Unit Retirements

In December 2010, Kennecott Utah Copper announced that it would repower units 1-3 of its Utah Smelter power plant to run on natural gas by 2018. However, unit 4 (82 MW) of the plant will continue to be powered by coal.

Units 1-3 were shut down in 2016 and will be decommissioned in the near future.

The last coal unit, unit 4, was shut down in May 2019.

Emissions Data

• 2006 CO₂ Emissions: 1,225,805 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions:
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• 2006 NO_x Emissions:
• 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.

Related SourceWatch Articles

• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Utah and coal
• Rio Tinto
• United States and coal
• Global warming
• Coal plant conversion projects
• Coal plant retirements

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