Scherer power plant

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Scherer power plant
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location
Scherer Power Plant (Georgia)
Scherer power plant
Coordinates 33 ° 3 '38 "  N , 83 ° 48' 30"  W Coordinates: 33 ° 3 '38 "  N , 83 ° 48' 30"  W.
country United States
Waters Lake Juliette
Data
Type coal-fired power station
Primary energy Fossil energy
fuel Hard coal
power 3520 MW electric
owner Georgia Power, several public utilities
operator Georgia Power
Start of operations 1982
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The Scherer power plant ( English Plant Scherer ) is a coal-fired power plant near Juliette in the US state of Georgia . It is the largest all-coal power plant in the United States.

The Scherer power plant is supplied with coal trains from the Powder River Basin .

blocks

block power Installation
1 880 MW 1982
2 880 MW 1982
3 880 MW 1982
4th 880 MW 1982

Individual evidence

  1. Andrew Tarantola: America's Largest Coal Power Plant Burns 11 Million Tons of Bituminous a Year. In: Gizmodo . October 18, 2011, accessed October 15, 2016 .
  2. Plant Scherer ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.georgiapower.com