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.
| White Bluff Power Plant | |
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 White Bluff Power Plant in 2023 | |
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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 |
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| Operator | Entergy Arkansas |
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| Cooling source | Arkansas River |
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Retirement
editIn 2018, Entergy announced it will close the plant by 2028.[2]
Emissions
editIn 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
editReferences
edit- ↑ "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, archived from the original on January 13, 2012, retrieved February 25, 2014
External links
edit- Data on generation and fuel consumption from the Energy Information Administration Electricity Data Browser
- Drawings of White Bluff Power Plant at SkyscraperPage.com
