Wansley Plant
{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Wansley Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Southern Company near Franklin, Georgia.
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Plant Data
- Owner: Georgia Power Company
- Parent Company: Southern Company
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 1,904 MW
- Units and In-Service Dates: 952 MW (1976), 952 MW (1978)
- Location: 3461 Hollingsworth Ferry Rd., Franklin, GA 30217
- GPS Coordinates: 33.410694, -85.03661
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- 2006 CO2 Emissions: 13,612,838 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions: 96,200 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
- 2006 NOx Emissions: 13,814 tons
- 2005 Mercury Emissions: 452 lb.
Coal Waste Site
Wansley ranked 9th 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]
Wansley Plant ranked number 9 on the list, with 2,673,672 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.[1]
Legislative issues
House Bill 276, proposed by Margaret Oliver (D-Decatur), would put a 5-year moratorium on building new coal plants and eliminate the burning of Appalachian coal mined by mountaintop removal by mid-2016. The Appalachian Mountain Preservation Act would gradually prohibit Georgia coal consumers from using Central Appalachian mountaintop removal beginning in 2011. The bill is backed by environmental groups including Appalachian Voices but received strong opposition from POWER4Georgians, a coalition of 10 electric co-operatives seeking to build a $2 billion 850-megawatt supercritical coal plant in Washington County.[3][4]
Citizen groups
- CleanPower4Georgians
- Fall-line Alliance for Clean Environment
- Focus the Nation
- Friends of the Chattahoochee
- GreenLaw
- Sierra Club Georgia Chapter
- Co-op Conversations Georgia
- Cobb Alliance for Smart Energy
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ Jump up to: 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.
- ↑ "Georgia bill proposes moratorium on new coal plants," Reuters, February 4, 2009.
- ↑ Margaret Newkirk, "Bill would restrict coal power plants," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 4, 2009.
- 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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