• Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) plant
• Located in south-western Louisville, the plant site covers 504 acres
• Began commercial operation in 1954 in response to the demand for electricity by industries that located in Louisville during World War II. Three of its six units are now retired. Units 4, 5 and 6 have a net generating capacity of 563MW
• Burns 1.5 million tonnes of coal per year all of which is transported by rail
• Scrubbers were added onto all three units between 1976 and 1979 when scrubbers were built for the first wave of US utility boilers to be retrofitted. Cane Run station meets the Clean Air Act's more stringent Phase II standards for sulphur dioxide emissions
• All three units were retrofitted with low-NOx burners between 1995 and 1996. Cane Run station meets the Clean Air Act's Phase II standards for nitrogen oxide emissions
• The Company's first sludge-processing plant began operation in 1980 to serve Unit 6 and its scrubber. A similar waste processing plant for Units 4 and 5 and their scrubbers went into operation in 1981. A processing plant produces environmentally acceptable landfill material from fly ash, lime and scrubber by-product

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