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Oklaunion Power Station
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Oklaunion Power Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by American Electric Power near Vernon, Texas.
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Plant Data
- Owner: Public Service Company of Oklahoma
- Parent Company: American Electric Power
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 720 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 720 MW (1986)
- Location: 12567 F.M. Rd. 3430, Vernon, TX 76384
- GPS Coordinates: 34.08, -99.179167
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- 2006 CO2 Emissions: 4,431,483 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions: 3,794 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
- 2006 NOx Emissions: 7,352 tons
- 2005 Mercury Emissions: 159 lb.
Oklaunion ranked 92nd on list of most polluting power plants in terms of coal waste
In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of coal combustion waste (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill.[1] The data came from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available.[2]
Oklaunion Power Station ranked number 92 on the list, with 254,652 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.[1]
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sue Sturgis, "Coal's ticking timebomb: Could disaster strike a coal ash dump near you?," Institute for Southern Studies, January 4, 2009.
- ↑ TRI Explorer, EPA, accessed January 2009.
- 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.
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