Carbon Power Plant

{{Short description|Coal-fired power station in Utah, US}}

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Carbon Power Plant, also known as Castle Gate Power Plant, was a relatively small, 190-MWe coal-fired power station in Utah, US, operated by PacifiCorp. Utah Power & Light constructed its Carbon Steam Generating Plant at Castle Gate in the mid 1950s.The Power To Make Good Things Happen; The History of Utah Power & Light Company by John S. McCormick; published 1990 by Utah Power & Light Company, page 121 Its units 1 and 2, rated at 75 and 113.6 MWe, were placed in service in 1954 and 1957.{{cite web

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| accessdate = 2008-07-14}} The plant was located at {{coord|39|43|38|N|110|51|51|W|display=inline,title}}, about {{convert|3|km|mi|abbr=on|sigfig=1}} north of Helper, Utah, on the east bank of Price River.

The plant, at the time the oldest operational in Utah, was shut down on April 16, 2015, due to new restrictions on emissions of mercury compounds{{Cite web|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865626442/End-of-an-era-Mercury-rule-shutters-Utahs-oldest-power-plant.html?pg=all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416174641/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865626442/End-of-an-era-Mercury-rule-shutters-Utahs-oldest-power-plant.html?pg=all|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 16, 2015|title=End of an era: Mercury rule shutters Utah's oldest power plant|website=Deseret News|date=14 April 2015}} and was demolished in 2016.https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4626204&itype=CMSID/Coal-crush:-Iconic-Carbon Power-Plant-being-dismantled-this week.html