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The White Bluff Power Plant is a 1,800.0-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station operated by Entergy Arkansas in Barraque Township, Arkansas. The plant is owned and operated by Entergy and has one of the tallest chimneys in the world at 305 metres (1,001 ft), which was built in 1980.
Retirement
In 2018, Entergy announced it will close the plant by 2028.
Emissions
In 2013, Environment America ranked the plant 42 on its list of the 100 dirtiest coal-fired power stations in the U.S., reporting that its 2011 emissions were equivalent to 2.16 million passenger vehicles.
The plant released 10,250,228 metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2012 according to the EPA. The emissions in metric tons comprised:
Carbon dioxide: 10,172,525
Methane: 24,688
Nitrous oxide: 53,015
See also
List of coal-fired power stations in the United States
List of power stations in Arkansas
References
External links
Data on generation and fuel consumption from the Energy Information Administration Electricity Data Browser
Drawings of White Bluff Power Plant at SkyscraperPage.com
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