Cayuga Generating Station
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Cayuga Generating Station is an electricity-generating facility, located in Eugene Township, Vermillion County, near Cayuga, Indiana. Its almost identical, coal-fired Units 1 and 2 were launched into service in 1970 and 1972, and have a combined name-plate generating capacity of 1,062 MWe. Unit 4 (121 MWe, launched in 1993) is powered by natural gas, but can also be switched to oil.{{cite web
| title = Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006
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| accessdate = 2008-07-14}} There are also four minor oil-fired units (numbered 31–34, 2.6 MWe each) of internal combustion design. The facility is entirely owned by Duke Energy.{{cite web
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| url = http://www.duke-energy.com/power-plants/coal-fired/cayuga.asp
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Environmental impact
In 2006, the plant emitted 86,174 tons of sulfur dioxide ({{SO2}}) into the air. Its {{SO2}} emission rate per unit of electricity produced was 26.68 lb/MWh in 2006, ranking 2nd worst in the United States. In 2008, Cayuga Station's flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) for Units 1 and 2 went online reducing the station's {{SO2}} emissions by approximately 95%.{{Cite web |url=http://www.duke-energy.com/power-plants/coal-fired/cayuga.asp |title=Cayuga Station - Duke Energy |access-date=2008-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080427151245/http://www.duke-energy.com/power-plants/coal-fired/cayuga.asp |archive-date=2008-04-27 |url-status=dead }}
See also
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References
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