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: 40.7905 -76.198
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.

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