America’s Dirtiest Power Plants

Table A-3. The Share of Each State’s Electricity-Sector Carbon Dioxide Pollution Contributed by the Top 5 Most-Polluting Power Plants
State Rank Plant Name Operator Name
Emissions
(Millon
Metric tons
of CO2)
Total
Emissions of
Top 5 Plants
(MMT of CO2)
Emissions
for Top 5 as
a Share of
Power-Sector
Total (2011)
Emissions for
Power-Sector
as a Share of
Statewide
Total (2010)
Estimated
Share of
Statewide
Emissions
Contributed by
Top 5±
AK 1 Beluga Chugach Electric Assn. Inc. 1.27
2 George M Sullivan Generation Plant 2 Anchorage Municipal Light and Power 0.61
3 Aurora Energy, LLC Chena Aurora Energy, LLC 0.34
2.8 75% 8% 6%
4 North Pole Golden Valley Elec. Assn. Inc. 0.30
5 Healy Golden Valley Elec. Assn. Inc. 0.23
AL 1 James H Miller Jr. Alabama Power Co. 20.66
2 E. C. Gaston Alabama Power Co. 10.29
3 Barry Alabama Power Co. 7.33
48.1 63% 58% 36%
4 Widows Creek* Tennessee Valley Authority 5.06
5 Colbert Tennessee Valley Authority 4.75
AR 1 Independence Entergy Arkansas Inc. 11.06
2 White Bluff Entergy Arkansas Inc. 10.36
3 Plum Point Energy Station Plum Point Energy Associates, LLC 4.00
32.0 92% 49% 45%
4 Flint Creek Southwestern Electric Power Co. 3.77
5 Union Power Partners, L.P. Union Power Partners, L.P. 2.79
AZ 1 Navajo Salt River Project 15.92
2 Springerville Tucson Electric Power Co. 11.45
3 Cholla Arizona Public Service Co. 7.45
43.0 81% 57% 46%
4 Coronado Salt River Project 5.66
5 Mesquite Generating Station Mesquite Power, LLC 2.50
CA 1 Mountainview Generating Station Southern California Edison Co. 1.85
2 Delta Energy Center Delta Energy Center, LLC 1.64
3 Haynes Los Angeles Department of Water & Power 1.49
7.5 19% 12% 2%
4 Cosumnes Sacramento Municipal Util. Dist. 1.26
5 Elk Hills Power, LLC Elk Hills Power, LLC 1.23
*Indicates that this power plant is scheduled for retirement. 113
± Obtained by multiplying Emissions for Top 5 as a Share of Power-Sector Total (2011) by Emissions for Power-Sector as a Share of Statewide Total (2010) U.S. EIA does not have state-by-state data for
power-sector emissions for 2011.
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