Seminole Generating Station

From Global Energy Monitor

Seminole Generating Station is an operating power station of at least 2654-megawatts (MW) in Palatka, Putnam, Florida, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Plant name Location Coordinates (WGS 84)
Seminole Generating Station Palatka, Putnam, Florida, United States 29.733883, -81.6324 (exact)

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Unit-level coordinates (WGS 84):

  • Unit 1, Unit 2: 29.733883, -81.6324
  • Unit SCCF: 29.73306, -81.63278

Project Details

Table 2: Unit-level details

Unit name Status Fuel(s) Capacity (MW) Technology CHP Start year Retired year
Unit 1 operating coal - bituminous 735.9 subcritical 1984 2024 (planned)
Unit 2 operating coal - bituminous 735.9 subcritical 1985
Unit SCCF operating[1] gas[2] 1183[1] combined cycle[2] no[3] 2023[1]

CHP is an abbreviation for Combined Heat and Power. It is a technology that produces electricity and thermal energy at high efficiencies. Coal units track this information in the Captive Use section when known.

Table 3: Unit-level ownership and operator details

Unit name Owner Parent
Unit 1 Seminole Electric Cooperative Inc [100.0%]
Unit 2 Seminole Electric Cooperative Inc [100.0%]
Unit SCCF Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc.[4] Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc. [100.0%]

Retirement plans

As of 2021, Seminole’s capacity expansion plan included a new advanced, large-frame two-on-one natural gas combined cycle unit under construction adjacent to the existing Seminole Generating Station Plant (Seminole Combined Cycle Facility or SCCF). Construction on SCCF began during the first quarter of 2020 and was expected to commence service in the fourth quarter of 2022, coinciding with the removal of one Seminole coal unit from service.[5]

The combined cycle unit of 1,183.2 MW became operational in April of 2023. The coal-fired Unit 1 was slated for retirement in January 2024.[6]

Emissions Data

  • 2006 CO2 Emissions: 9,737,169 tons
  • 2006 SO2 Emissions: 22,773 tons
  • 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
  • 2006 NOx Emissions: 22,719 tons
  • 2005 Mercury Emissions: 140 lb.

Death and disease attributable to fine particle pollution from the Seminole Generating Station

In 2010, Abt Associates issued a study commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, quantifying the deaths and other health effects attributable to fine particle pollution from coal-fired power plants.[7] The study found that over 13,000 deaths and tens of thousands of cases of chronic bronchitis, acute bronchitis, asthma-related episodes and asthma-related emergency room visits, congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, dysrhythmia, ischemic heart disease, chronic lung disease, peneumonia each year are attributable to fine particle pollution from U.S. coal-fired power plants. Fine particle pollution is formed from a combination of soot, acid droplets, and heavy metals formed from sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and soot. Among those particles, the most dangerous are the smallest (smaller than 2.5 microns), which are so tiny that they can evade the lung's natural defenses, enter the bloodstream, and be transported to vital organs. Impacts are especially severe among the elderly, children, and those with respiratory disease. Low-income and minority populations are disproportionately impacted as well, due to the tendency of companies to avoid locating power plants upwind of affluent communities.

The table below estimates the death and illness attributable to the Seminole Generating Station. Abt assigned a value of $7,300,000 to each 2010 mortality, based on a range of government and private studies. Valuations of illnesses ranged from $52 for an asthma episode to $440,000 for a case of chronic bronchitis.[8]

Table 1: Death and disease attributable to fine particle pollution from the Seminole Generating Station

Type of Impact Annual Incidence Valuation
Deaths 10 $75,000,000
Heart attacks 14 $1,600,000
Asthma attacks 160 $8,000
Hospital admissions 7 $170,000
Chronic bronchitis 6 $2,700,000
Asthma ER visits 10 $4,000

Source: "Find Your Risk from Power Plant Pollution," Clean Air Task Force interactive table, accessed February 2011

Citizen groups

Articles and Resources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory (May 2023)". Archived from the original on September 18, 2023. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory (November 2019)". Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
  3. "U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860 detailed data with previous form data (EIA-860A/860B), 2020". Archived from the original on April 18, 2021. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  4. "U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860 detailed data with previous form data (EIA-860A/860B), 2018". Archived from the original on November 16, 2019. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
  5. "Ten-Year Site Plan: 2021 – 2030 (Detail as of December 31, 2020), Florida PSC filing, April 1, 2021
  6. "Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory (based on Form EIA-860M as a supplement to Form EIA-860)". eia.gov. May 24, 2023. Retrieved June 24, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. "The Toll from Coal: An Updated Assessment of Death and Disease from America's Dirtiest Energy Source," Clean Air Task Force, September 2010.
  8. "Technical Support Document for the Powerplant Impact Estimator Software Tool," Prepared for the Clean Air Task Force by Abt Associates, July 2010

Additional data

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