Michigan City Generating Station

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Michigan City Generating Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by NiSource near Michigan City, Indiana.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Northern Indiana Public Service Company
• Parent Company: NiSource
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 540 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 540 MW (1974)
• Location: 101 Wabash St., Michigan City, IN 46360
• GPS Coordinates: 41.7207, -86.9069
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• 2006 CO₂ Emissions: 3,240,028 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions: 15,993 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• 2006 NO_x Emissions: 6,232 tons
• 2005 Mercury Emissions: 162 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

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

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