{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Ben French Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by the Black Hills Corporation near Rapid City, South Dakota.
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Plant Data[]
- Owner/Parent Company: Black Hills Corporation
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 25.0 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 25.0 MW (1961)
- Location: 409 Deadwood Ave., Rapid City, SD 57702
- GPS Coordinates: 44.087698, -103.262027
- Electricity Production: 152,534 MWh (2005)
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data[]
- CO2 Emissions: 220,670 tons (2006)
- SO2 Emissions: 786 tons (2002)
- SO2 Emissions per MWh: 10.31 lb/MWh
- NOx Emissions: 967 tons (2002)
- Mercury Emissions:
Articles and Resources[]
Sources[]
- 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.
- NETL Coal Power Plant Database, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2007.
- AirData Query Database, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed April 2009.
Related SourceWatch Articles[]
- Existing U.S. Coal Plants
- South Dakota and coal
- Black Hills Corporation
- United States and coal
- Global warming