White Bluff Power Plant Explained

White Bluff Power Plant
Image Alt:	Two cooling towers and one smoke stack, with white aviation lights, as seen towering over the trees in the foreground.
Location Map Zoom:	12
Country:	United States
Location:	Barraque Township, Arkansas
Coordinates:	34.4236°N -92.1402°W
Status:	O
Operator:	Entergy Arkansas
Ps Cooling Source:	Arkansas River

The White Bluff Power Plant is a 1,800.0-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station operated by Entergy Arkansas in Barraque Township, Arkansas.^[1] The plant is owned and operated by Entergy and has one of the tallest chimneys in the world at 305m (1,001feet), which was built in 1980.

Retirement

In 2018, Entergy announced it will close the plant by 2028.^[2]

Emissions

In 2013, Environment America ranked the plant 42 on its list of the 100 dirtiest coal-fired power stations in the U.S., reporting that its 2011 emissions were equivalent to 2.16 million passenger vehicles.^[3]

The plant released 10,250,228 metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2012 according to the EPA. The emissions in metric tons comprised:

• Carbon dioxide: 10,172,525
• Methane: 24,688
• Nitrous oxide

53,015

See also

• List of coal-fired power stations in the United States
• List of power stations in Arkansas

External links

• Data on generation and fuel consumption from the Energy Information Administration Electricity Data Browser
• Drawings of White Bluff Power Plant at SkyscraperPage.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: U.S. Energy Mapping System . U.S. Energy Information Administration . en . 2020-12-31.
2. Web site: Entergy to phase out two coal-fired plants in Arkansas . 2018-11-17 . Arkansas Online . en . 2019-07-18.
3. Web site: America's Dirtiest Power Plants: Their Oversized Contribution to Global Warming and What We Can Do About It . Schneider . Jordan . Madsen . Travis . September 2013 . Environment America Research & Policy Center . 25 February 2014.