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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.
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| − | ==Progress Energy to shut coal plants==
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| − | On December 1, 2009, [[Progress Energy|Progress Energy Carolinas]] announced that by the end of 2017 it would permanently close all of its North Carolina coal plants without [[Sulfur dioxide and coal|sulfur dioxide]] scrubbers. The 11 units at [[Sutton Steam Plant|L.V. Sutton]], [[Cape Fear Steam Plant|Cape Fear]], Weatherspoon, and [[Lee Steam Plant|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:
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| − | * Lee is scheduled for retirement in 2013.
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| − | * Sutton is slated for closure in 2014. Progress hopes to replace it with a natural gas-fired power plant.
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| − | * 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.
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| − | 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.<ref>[http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/North_Carolina/2009/12/01/CL18913 "Progress Energy Carolinas Plans to Retire Remaining Unscrubbed Coal Plants in N.C.,"] PRNewswire, December 1, 2009.</ref><ref>Tina Casey, [http://www.reuters.com/article/mnEnergy/idUS414152905220091202 "Progress Energy Joins Stampede Away from Coal,"] Reuters, December 2, 2009.</ref>
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| − | ==Plant Data==
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| − | *'''Owner''': Progress Energy Carolinas
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| − | *'''Parent Company''': [[Progress Energy]]
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| − | *'''Plant Nameplate Capacity''': 166 MW (Megawatts)
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| − | *'''Units and In-Service Dates''': 46 MW (1949), 46 MW (1950), 74 MW (1952)
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| − | *'''Location''': 491 Power Plant Rd., Lumberton, NC 28358
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| − | *'''GPS Coordinates''': 34.592523, -78.977649
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| − | *'''Coal Consumption''':
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| − | *'''Number of Employees''':
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| − | ==Emissions Data==
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| − | *'''2006 CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions''': 1,200,517 tons
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| − | *'''2006 SO<sub>2</sub> Emissions''':
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| − | *'''2006 SO<sub>2</sub> Emissions per MWh''':
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| − | *'''2006 NO<sub>x</sub> Emissions''':
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| − | *'''2005 Mercury Emissions''':
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| − | ==Coal Waste Site==
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| − | *[[Weatherspoon Plant 1979 Pond]]
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| − | ==Articles and Resources==
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| − | ===Sources===
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| − | <references/>
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| − | *[http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat2p2.html Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005], Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
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| − | *Environmental Integrity Project, [http://www.dirtykilowatts.org/Dirty_Kilowatts2007.pdf "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants"], July 2007.
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| − | *[http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/fii/fii_query_java.html Facility Registry System], U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
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| − | *[http://carma.org/dig Carbon Monitoring for Action database], accessed Feb. 2009.
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| − | ===Related SourceWatch Articles===
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| − | *[[Existing U.S. Coal Plants]]
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| − | *[[North Carolina and coal]]
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| − | *[[Progress Energy]]
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| − | *[[United States and coal]]
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| − | *[[Global warming]]
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