Cedar Bay Cogeneration Plant
Cedar Bay Cogeneration Plant is a 250-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station owned and operated by PG&E near Jacksonville, Florida.
- 1 Location
- 2 Retirement
- 3 Plant Data
- 4 Emissions Data
- 5 Death and disease attributable to fine particle pollution from the Cedar Bay Cogeneration Plant
- 6 Articles and Resources
The undated satellite photo below shows the power station in Jacksonville, Florida.
In March 2015 Florida Power & Light Co. filed a petition with the Florida Public Service Commission for acquisition of Cedar Bay. The plant had been under a long-term contract to supply power to FP&L since 1998. FP&L is looking to buy the plant for $520.5 million. If successful, its plans are to reduce operations by 90 percent and eventually phase the plant out of service in the next two to three years. According to the company, the result should be an estimated $70 million saved for customers and the prevention of 1 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually; under the current setup, FP&L has to pay more than $120 million a year to the plant.
- Owner: U.S. Operating Services Company
- Parent Company: PG&E
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 292 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 292 MW (1994)
- Location: 9640 Eastport Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32218
- GPS Coordinates: 30.421417, -81.606972
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
- 2006 CO2 Emissions: 2,334,210 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions:
- 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
- 2006 NOx Emissions:
- 2005 Mercury Emissions:
Death and disease attributable to fine particle pollution from the Cedar Bay Cogeneration Plant
In 2010, Abt Associates issued a study commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, quantifying the deaths and other health effects attributable to fine particle pollution from coal-fired power plants. The study found that over 13,000 deaths and tens of thousands of cases of chronic bronchitis, acute bronchitis, asthma-related episodes and asthma-related emergency room visits, congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, dysrhythmia, ischemic heart disease, chronic lung disease, peneumonia each year are attributable to fine particle pollution from U.S. coal-fired power plants. Fine particle pollution is formed from a combination of soot, acid droplets, and heavy metals formed from sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and soot. Among those particles, the most dangerous are the smallest (smaller than 2.5 microns), which are so tiny that they can evade the lung's natural defenses, enter the bloodstream, and be transported to vital organs. Impacts are especially severe among the elderly, children, and those with respiratory disease. Low-income and minority populations are disproportionately impacted as well, due to the tendency of companies to avoid locating power plants upwind of affluent communities.
The table below estimates the death and illness attributable to the Cedar Bay Cogeneration Plant. Abt assigned a value of $7,300,000 to each 2010 mortality, based on a range of government and private studies. Valuations of illnesses ranged from $52 for an asthma episode to $440,000 for a case of chronic bronchitis.
Table 1: Death and disease attributable to fine particle pollution from the Cedar Bay Cogeneration Plant
|Type of Impact||Annual Incidence||Valuation|
|Asthma ER visits||4||$1,000|
Source: "Find Your Risk from Power Plant Pollution," Clean Air Task Force interactive table, accessed February 2011
Articles and Resources
- "FPL looks to acquire coal-fired power plant in Jacksonville — and then shut it down," Jacksonville Business Journal, Mar 6, 2015
- "The Toll from Coal: An Updated Assessment of Death and Disease from America's Dirtiest Energy Source," Clean Air Task Force, September 2010.
- "Technical Support Document for the Powerplant Impact Estimator Software Tool," Prepared for the Clean Air Task Force by Abt Associates, July 2010
- Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
- Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
- Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
- Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.
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