White Bluff Power Plant
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White Bluff Power Plant | |
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Country | United States |
Location | Barraque Township, Arkansas |
Coordinates | 34°25′24.8″N 92°08′24.7″W / 34.423556°N 92.140194°W |
Status | Operational |
Construction began | 1978 |
Commission date | August 1980 |
Decommission date | 2028 |
Owner(s) |
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Operator(s) | Entergy Arkansas |
Site elevation |
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Cooling source | Arkansas River |
Power generation | |
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The White Bluff Power Plant is a 1,800.0-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station operated by Entergy Arkansas in Barraque Township, Arkansas.[1] The plant is owned and operated by Entergy and has one of the tallest chimneys in the world at 305 metres (1,001 ft), which was built in 1980.
Retirement
In 2018, Entergy announced it will close the plant by 2028.[2]
Emissions
In 2013, Environment America ranked the plant 42 on its list of the 100 dirtiest coal-fired power stations in the U.S., reporting that its 2011 emissions were equivalent to 2.16 million passenger vehicles.[3]
The plant released 10,250,228 metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2012 according to the EPA.[4] The emissions in metric tons comprised:
- Carbon dioxide: 10,172,525
- Methane: 24,688
- Nitrous oxide: 53,015
See also
References
- ^ "U.S. Energy Mapping System". U.S. Energy Information Administration. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
- ^ "Entergy to phase out two coal-fired plants in Arkansas". Arkansas Online. November 17, 2018. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ^ Schneider, Jordan; Madsen, Travis (September 2013). "America's Dirtiest Power Plants: Their Oversized Contribution to Global Warming and What We Can Do About It" (PDF). Environment America Research & Policy Center. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
- ^ EPA Facility Level GHG Emissions Data, Environmental Protection Agency, retrieved February 25, 2014
External links
- Data on generation and fuel consumption from the Energy Information Administration Electricity Data Browser
- Drawings of White Bluff Power Plant at SkyscraperPage.com
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