Meredosia Power Station

Meredosia Power Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Ameren near Meredosia, Illinois.



Plant Data

 * Owner: Ameren Energy Generating Company
 * Parent Company: Ameren
 * Plant Nameplate Capacity: 354 MW (Megawatts)
 * Units and In-Service Dates: 58 MW (1948), 58 MW (1949), 239 MW (1960)
 * Location: 800 South Washington St., Meredosia, IL 62665
 * GPS Coordinates: 39.823269, -90.5672
 * Coal Consumption:
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 * Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

 * 2006 CO2 Emissions: 2,136,279 tons
 * 2006 SO2 Emissions:
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Meredosia ranked 70th 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.

Meredosia Power Station ranked number 70 on the list, with 398,106 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.

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