Chillicothe Paper Power Plant

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Chillicothe Paper Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by NewPage Corporation - which is owned by Cerberus Capital Management - in Chillicothe, Ohio. The plant provides power to NewPage's Chillicothe paper mill. In Jan. 2008, NewPage reported that it plans to shut down its Chillicothe paper plant.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Chillicothe Paper Inc.
• Parent Company: NewPage Corporation (owned by Cerberus Capital Management)
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 92.8 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 10.6 MW (1952), 24.0 MW (1958), 31.0 MW (1967), 27.2 MW (1978)
• Location: 1101 River Rd., Chillicothe, OH 45601
• GPS Coordinates: 39.321962, -82.974708
• Electricity Production: 535,411 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 702,720 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions:
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• NO_x Emissions:
• Mercury Emissions:

Articles and Resources

Sources

• 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.

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• Ohio and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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