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CPS Energy, which is owned by the City Public Service Board of San Antonio, is operating a 600 megawatt (MW) power plant as an addition to its Calaveras Lake based J. K. Spruce Station. The utility boiler burns coal from the Powder River Basin.[1][2] The plant became operational in 2010.[3]
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Project Details
Sponsor: City Public Service Board of San Antonio
Location: Calaveras Lake, TX
Capacity: 750 MW
Projected in service: 2010
Status: Construction
Financing
Citizen Groups
- Stop the Coal Plant
- Sustainable Energy & Economic Development Coalition, Karen Hadden, karen [at] seedcoalition.org
Resources
References
- ↑ Emissions from Recently Permitted and Proposed Coal Burning Power Plants, Stop the Coal Plant website, August 7, 2007.
- ↑ CPS City Public Service is Addicted to Coal, SEEC Coalition website, accessed January 2008.
- ↑ "New Spruce 2 Coal Plant Exceeds Expectations" CPS Energy, accessed November 1, 2011.
Related SourceWatch Articles
- Coal plant litigation
- Texas and coal
- United States and coal
- Carbon Capture and Storage
- Existing U.S. Coal Plants
- US proposed coal plants (both active and cancelled)
- Coal plants cancelled in 2007
- Coal plants cancelled in 2008
- State-by-state guide to information on coal in the United States (or click on the map)
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External links
- "Tracking New Coal-Fired Power Plants ", National Energy Technology Lab, May 2007, page 20. (PDF)
- "Stopping the Coal Rush", Sierra Club, accessed January 2008. (This is a Sierra Club list of new coal plant proposals.)
- City Public Service Board website
