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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±
ME 1 Westbrook Energy Center Power Plant Westbrook Energy Center 1.01 2.8 82% 14% 11%
2 Verso Paper Verso Bucksport, LLC 0.73
3 Maine Independence Station Casco Bay Energy Co., LLC 0.69
4 Rumford Power Associates Rumford Power 0.17
5 Androscoggin Energy Center Verso Paper Androscoggin, LLC 0.15
MI 1 Monroe Detroit Edison Co. 16.39 42.8 64% 42% 27%
2 J. H. Campbell Consumers Energy Co. 8.16
3 Belle River Detroit Edison Co. 7.91
4 St. Clair Detroit Edison Co. 6.54
5 Trenton Channel Detroit Edison Co. 3.76
MN 1 Sherburne County Northern States Power Co. – Minnesota 13.11 26.3 85% 31% 27%
2 Clay Boswell Minnesota Power Inc. 7.45
3 Allen S. King Northern States Power Co. – Minnesota 3.18
4 Black Dog* Northern States Power Co. – Minnesota 1.39
5 Taconite Harbor Energy Center Minnesota Power Inc. 1.20
MO 1 Labadie Union Electric Co. – (MO) 18.50 50.1 62% 56% 35%
2 Iatan Kansas City Power & Light Co. 8.41
3 Thomas Hill Associated Electric Coop, Inc. 8.29
4 Rush Island Union Electric Co. – (MO) 7.85
5 New Madrid Associated Electric Coop, Inc. 7.09
MS 1 Victor J. Daniel Jr. Mississippi Power Co. 5.28 14.1 61% 40% 25%
2 Red Hills Generating Facility Choctaw Generating, L.P. 2.74
3 Jack Watson Mississippi Power Co. 2.73
4 Baxter Wilson Entergy Mississippi Inc. 1.76
5 R. D. Morrow South Mississippi El Pwr. Assn. 1.55
*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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