Union Carbide South Charleston Power Plant

Union Carbide South Charleston Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Dow Chemical Company in South Charleston, West Virginia. The plant provides power to Dow's South Charleston chemicals and plastics manufacturing facility.

Plant Data

 * Owner: Union Carbide
 * Parent Company: Dow Chemical Company
 * Plant Nameplate Capacity: 6.0 MW (Megawatts)
 * Units and In-Service Dates: 6.0 MW (1953)
 * Location: 437 MacCorkle Ave., South Charleston, WV 25303
 * GPS Coordinates: 38.369908, -81.692615
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Emissions Data

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External Resources

 * 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.

Related SourceWatch Articles

 * Existing U.S. Coal Plants
 * West Virginia and coal
 * Dow Chemical Company
 * Union Carbide
 * United States and coal
 * Global warming