Barry Steam Plant

Barry Steam Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Southern Company near Bucks, AL.



Plant Data

 * Owner: Alabama Power Co.
 * Parent Company: Southern Company
 * Plant Nameplate Capacity: 1,771 MW
 * Units and In-Service Dates: 153 MW (1954), 153 MW (1954), 272 MW (1959), 404 MW (1969), 789 MW (1971)
 * Location: U.S. Highway 43, Bucks, AL 36512
 * GPS Coordinates: 31.005908, -88.011383
 * Coal Consumption:
 * Coal Source:
 * Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

 * 2006 CO2 Emissions: 12,449,918 tons
 * 2006 SO2 Emissions: 52,621 tons
 * 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
 * 2006 NOx Emissions: 16,800 tons
 * 2005 Mercury Emissions: 881 lb.

Barry ranked 13th 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.

Barry Steam Plant ranked number 13 on the list, with 2,350,349 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.

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