Big Stone Power Plant

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Big Stone Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Otter Tail Power near Big Stone, South Dakota.

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Plant Data

• Owner/Parent Company: Otter Tail Power
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 456 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 456 MW (1975)
• Location: 48450 144th St., Big Stone, SD 57216
• GPS Coordinates: 45.298005, -96.526481
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• 2006 CO₂ Emissions: 3,784,492 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions: 11,986 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• 2006 NO_x Emissions: 14,681 tons
• 2005 Mercury Emissions: 150 lb.

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.

Related SourceWatch Articles

• Big Stone II
• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• South Dakota and coal
• Otter Tail Power
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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