Yates Steam Generating Plant
{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Yates Steam Electric Generating Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Southern Company near Newnan, Georgia.
Plant Data
- Owner: Georgia Power Company
- Parent Company: Southern Company
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 1,487 MW
- Units and In-Service Dates: 123 MW (1950), 123 MW (1950), 123 MW (1952), 156 MW (1957), 156 MW (1958), 404 MW (1974), 404 MW (1974)
- Location: 708 Dyer Rd., Newnan, GA 30263
- GPS Coordinates: 33.462389, -84.89861
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- 2006 CO2 Emissions: 7,496,074 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions: 75,476 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
- 2006 NOx Emissions: 12,206 tons
- 2005 Mercury Emissions: 398 lb.
Yates ranked 74th on list of most polluting power plants in terms of coal waste
In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of coal combustion waste (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill.[1] The data came from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available.[2]
Yates Steam Generating Plant ranked number 74 on the list, with 376,610 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.[1]
Southern Company abandons carbon capture and storage project
In December 2009, Southern Company received a $295 million grant from the Department of Energy to retrofit 160MW at the Barry Steam Plant for carbon capture. The company plants to compress and transport the CO2 through a pipeline and store up to one million metric tons per year in deep saline formations. The company will also explore using the captured CO2 for enhanced oil recovery.[3]
However, on March 1, 2010 it was announced that Southern Company had abandoned its $700 million carbon capture project at the Barry Steam Plant. Company spokesperson Steve Higginbottom said, "It's really about the efficient deployment of resources. Really, we felt it was in the best interest of our customers and shareholders to not move forward with the expanded CCS project at Plant Barry." He added, "The current economic conditions also factored into the decision."[4]
Later in September 2010, Southern Company reported that they had captured carbon emissions at its Yates Steam Generating Plant for the first time and then released it during a pilot project. The technology uses a solvent to remove carbon gas from emissions. The company stated that while the they released the captured carbon at Yates, it will be catching carbon and storing it underground at its Barry Steam Plant in 2011.[5].
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sue Sturgis, "Coal's ticking timebomb: Could disaster strike a coal ash dump near you?," Institute for Southern Studies, January 4, 2009.
- ↑ TRI Explorer, EPA, accessed January 2009.
- ↑ "Laura Miller gets her clean coal grant," Dallas News, December 4, 2009.
- ↑ " Daniel Kessler Treehugger.com March, 1 2010.
- ↑ "Southern captures carbon emissions for first time" Margaret Newkirk, Atlanta Journal-Constitution September 23, 2010
- 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.
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