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'''W.H. Weatherspoon Steam Electric Generating Plant''' is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by [[Progress Energy]] near Lumberton, North Carolina. | '''W.H. Weatherspoon Steam Electric Generating Plant''' is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by [[Progress Energy]] near Lumberton, North Carolina. | ||
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Revision as of 02:19, 19 February 2010
{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} W.H. Weatherspoon Steam Electric Generating Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Progress Energy near Lumberton, North Carolina.
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Progress Energy to shut coal plants
On December 1, 2009, Progress Energy Carolinas announced that by the end of 2017 it would permanently close all of its North Carolina coal plants without sulfur dioxide scrubbers. The 11 units at L.V. Sutton, Cape Fear, Weatherspoon, and Lee total almost 1,500 megawatts and represent about a third of the utility's coal-fired power generation in N.C. The retirement plan includes the following:
- Lee is scheduled for retirement in 2013.
- Sutton is slated for closure in 2014. Progress hopes to replace it with a natural gas-fired power plant.
- Cape Fear and Weatherspoon will be shut down between 2013 and 2017. The company is considering converting 50 to 150MW of the total capacity to burn wood waste.
The closure plan was filed in response to a request by the N.C. Utilities Commission, which ordered Progress to provide its retirement schedule for "unscrubbed" coal-fired units in North Carolina. The request was a condition of the commission's approval of Progress' plan to close Lee and build a 950-MW natural gas plant at the site.[1][2]
Plant Data
- Owner: Progress Energy Carolinas
- Parent Company: Progress Energy
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 166 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 46 MW (1949), 46 MW (1950), 74 MW (1952)
- Location: 491 Power Plant Rd., Lumberton, NC 28358
- GPS Coordinates: 34.592523, -78.977649
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- 2006 CO2 Emissions: 1,200,517 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions:
- 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
- 2006 NOx Emissions:
- 2005 Mercury Emissions:
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ "Progress Energy Carolinas Plans to Retire Remaining Unscrubbed Coal Plants in N.C.," PRNewswire, December 1, 2009.
- ↑ Tina Casey, "Progress Energy Joins Stampede Away from Coal," Reuters, December 2, 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.
Related SourceWatch Articles
- Existing U.S. Coal Plants
- North Carolina and coal
- Progress Energy
- United States and coal
- Global warming
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