Hunlock Power Station
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Hunlock Power Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by UGI near Hunlock Creek, Pennsylvania.
The station's coal units 1 & 2 were retired in 1975. In 2009, the Pennsylvania DEP approved the retrofitting of Hunlock Creek-3 with two gas turbines. At the end of May 2010, the coal-fired boiler was retired.[1]
Plant Data
- Owner: UGI Development Company
- Parent Company: UGI
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 49.9 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 49.9 MW (1959)
- Location: 390 Rte. 11, Hunlock Creek, PA 18621
- GPS Coordinates: 41.201538, -76.069648
- Electricity Production: 236,045 MWh (2005)
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- CO2 Emissions: 350,219 tons (2005)
- SO2 Emissions: 4,532 tons (2005)
- SO2 Emissions per MWh: 38.40 lb/MWh
- NOx Emissions: 451 tons (2005)
- Mercury Emissions:
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ "Coal-Fired Power Plants in Pennsylvania," Power Plants Around the World, accessed September 2012.
- 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.
- NETL Coal Power Plant Database, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2007.
- AirData Query Database, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed April 2009.
