Greene County Steam Plant

Greene County Steam Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Southern Company near Forkland, Alabama. Mississippi Power owns a 40 percent undivided interest in Plant Units 1 and 2.

Plant Data

 * Owner: Alabama Power Company
 * Parent Company: Southern Company
 * Plant Nameplate Capacity: 568 MW (Megawatts)
 * Units and In-Service Dates: 299 MW (1965), 299 MW (1966)
 * Location: Hwy. 43 and C.R. 18, Forkland, AL 36740
 * GPS Coordinates: 32.6025, -87.788917
 * Coal Consumption:
 * Coal Source: East Brookwood Mine, Gibson Mine
 * Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

 * 2006 CO2 Emissions: 4,290,043 tons
 * 2006 SO2 Emissions: 37,863 tons
 * 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
 * 2006 NOx Emissions: 6,518 tons
 * 2005 Mercury Emissions: 607 lb.

Coal Waste Site

 * Greene County Steam Plant Ash Pond

Greene County Plant ranked 30th on list of most polluting power plants in terms of coal waste
In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of coal combustion waste (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill. The data came from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available.

Greene County Steam Plant ranked number 30 on the list, with 1,343,973 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.

Citizen Groups
See also Alabama and coal
 * Black Warrior Riverkeeper
 * GASP (formerly Alabama First)

Related SourceWatch Articles

 * Existing U.S. Coal Plants
 * Alabama and coal
 * Southern Company
 * United States and coal
 * Global warming