John B. Rich Memorial Power Station

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} John B. Rich Memorial Power Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Gilberton Power Company (which is owned by coal magnate John W. Rich) near Frackville, Pennsylvania.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Gilberton Power Company
• Parent Entity: John W. Rich
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 88.4 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 88.4 MW (1988)
• Location: 50 Eleanor Dr., Frackville, PA 17931
• GPS Coordinates: 40.801755, -76.197441
• Electricity Production: 672,773 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 934,303 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions: 1,525 tons (2002)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 4.53 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions: 230 tons (2002)
• 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.
• 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

• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Pennsylvania and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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