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Released August 04, 2014 | SUGAR LAND
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Oklahoma is one of nine states involved in a lawsuit opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Power Plan. Industrial Info is looking at these states in more detail.
For more information, see July 10, 2014, article- Nine States Join Lawsuit Opposing EPA Carbon Rules.
Oklahoma has 10 active facilities that use coal as their primary fuel. Industrial Info tracks data for all of them. Seven of the 10 facilities are power plants, and the rest include a limestone quarry and cement plant; a hydraulic cement plant; and a pulp and paper mill.
Below are the operational coal-fired power plants that Industrial Info tracks in Oklahoma. Click the link for each plant to view the plant profile, including unit, boiler and project information:
Oklahoma ranks 11th in total energy consumption per capita among U.S. states, with 441 million British thermal units (Btu), according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). It also ranks fourth in the country in natural gas production and sixth in overall wind-based generating capacity. Last year, Oklahoma ranked fourth in net electricity generation from wind,accounting for 15% of the state's net generation,while coal-fired electric power plants produced 41%.
The EPA Clean Power Plan calls for Oklahoma to reduce its carbon emissions by 36%. This is 6% higher than the 30% national average reduction called for by the plan.
Oklahoma's available natural gas supply and wind generation capacity leads to a somewhat confusing picture regarding its opposition to the EPA's Clean Power Plan. This is not helped by apparently opposing positions taken by Oklahoma state officials. The day the EPA's Clean Power Plan was made public, Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a Republican, said the EPA's proposal "has no legal basis or the force of law." He went on to say: "Rather than working through Congress, the president instead is choosing to rule by executive fiat in order to implement his environmental agenda. His actions undermine the rule of law and the spirit of cooperative federalism that pervades the environmental laws passed by Congress."
On the other hand, Michael Teague, the head of Oklahoma's Department of Environmental Quality and a Republican appointee, recently said: "I don't think any of these rules really caught utilities off guard. I think they're all looking pretty far forward. So I'm not sure compliance for us will be difficult.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, three offices in North America and 10 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities.
For more information, see July 10, 2014, article- Nine States Join Lawsuit Opposing EPA Carbon Rules.
Oklahoma has 10 active facilities that use coal as their primary fuel. Industrial Info tracks data for all of them. Seven of the 10 facilities are power plants, and the rest include a limestone quarry and cement plant; a hydraulic cement plant; and a pulp and paper mill.
Below are the operational coal-fired power plants that Industrial Info tracks in Oklahoma. Click the link for each plant to view the plant profile, including unit, boiler and project information:
- Northeastern Power Station 01 & 02; owned by American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP) (AEP) (Columbus, Ohio); 642-MW capacity; first operational in 1961.
- Northeastern Power Station 03 & 04; owned by owned by AEP; 994-MW capacity; first operational in 1979.
- Shady Point Cogeneration; owned by AES Shady Point LLC (Panama, Oklahoma), a subsidiary of AES Corporation (NYSE:AES) (Arlington, Virginia); 350-MW capacity; first operational in 1990.
- Grand River Energy Center; owned by Grand River Dam Authority (Vinita, Oklahoma); 1,101-MW capacity; first operational in 1981.
- Muskogee Generating Station; owned by OG&E Electric Services (NYSE:OGE) (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); 1,840-MW capacity; first operational in 1956.
- Sooner Lake Power Station; owned by OG&E Electric Services; 1,136-MW capacity; first operational in 1979.
- Hugo Power Station; owned by Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (Anadarko, Oklahoma); 475-MW capacity; first operational in 1982.
Oklahoma ranks 11th in total energy consumption per capita among U.S. states, with 441 million British thermal units (Btu), according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). It also ranks fourth in the country in natural gas production and sixth in overall wind-based generating capacity. Last year, Oklahoma ranked fourth in net electricity generation from wind,accounting for 15% of the state's net generation,while coal-fired electric power plants produced 41%.
The EPA Clean Power Plan calls for Oklahoma to reduce its carbon emissions by 36%. This is 6% higher than the 30% national average reduction called for by the plan.
Oklahoma's available natural gas supply and wind generation capacity leads to a somewhat confusing picture regarding its opposition to the EPA's Clean Power Plan. This is not helped by apparently opposing positions taken by Oklahoma state officials. The day the EPA's Clean Power Plan was made public, Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a Republican, said the EPA's proposal "has no legal basis or the force of law." He went on to say: "Rather than working through Congress, the president instead is choosing to rule by executive fiat in order to implement his environmental agenda. His actions undermine the rule of law and the spirit of cooperative federalism that pervades the environmental laws passed by Congress."
On the other hand, Michael Teague, the head of Oklahoma's Department of Environmental Quality and a Republican appointee, recently said: "I don't think any of these rules really caught utilities off guard. I think they're all looking pretty far forward. So I'm not sure compliance for us will be difficult.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, three offices in North America and 10 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities.
