Tennessee Eastman Kingsport Power Plant

Tennessee Eastman's Kingsport Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Eastman Chemical Co. in Kingsport, Tennessee. Pictured below is Eastman's Kingsport chemical plant, within which there are 19 coal-fired generating stations.

Plant Data

 * Owner: Tennessee Eastman
 * Parent Company: Eastman Chemical Co.
 * Plant Nameplate Capacity: 194 MW (Megawatts)
 * Units and In-Service Dates: 6 MW (1936), 6 MW (1939), 6 MW (1941), 6 MW (1946), 6 MW (1949), 6 MW (1953), 7 MW (1960), 10 MW (1962), 8 MW (1963), 10 MW (1966), 10 MW (1966), 10 MW (1967), 15 MW (1969), 10 MW (1970), 10 MW (1972), 15 MW (1982), 17 MW (1983), 17 MW (1994), 18 MW (1994)
 * Location: 100 North Eastman Rd., Kingsport, TN 37662
 * GPS Coordinates: 36.519722, -82.540556
 * Coal Consumption:
 * Coal Source:
 * Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

 * 2006 CO2 Emissions: 3,737,797 tons
 * 2006 SO2 Emissions:
 * 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
 * 2006 NOx Emissions:
 * 2005 Mercury Emissions:

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.

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