Warrick Generating Station is a coal-fired electricity-generating station, located southeast of Newburgh in Warrick County in Indiana, US.
It sits on the north bank of Ohio River, downstream of the F. B. Culley Generating Station. The plant has four coal-fired, steam-powered turbines with a combined generating capacity of 791 MWe. Alcoa owns three of the four generating stations, which were placed into service in the early 1960s. The largest unit, known as Unit 4, is 323-MWe unit jointly owned by Alcoa and Vectren. This larger unit was placed in operation in 1970.
Environmental impact Warrick Plant discharges all of its waste heat (about twice its electrical output) into Ohio River. In 2006, Warrick Plant was the third most-polluting major power station in the US in terms of sulphur dioxide gas emission rate: it discharged of SO2 for each MWh of electric power produced that year (92,919 tons of SO2 per year in total).
See also
List of power stations in Indiana Climate change in the United States
References
External links http://www.vectren.com/web/eenablement/learn_about/environmental_stewardship/air_quality_i.jsp Barges hauling coal up the Ohio River with the F. B. Culley and Warrick Power Stations in the background