• Western Kentucky Energy (WKE) plant
• Located in Centertown, Kentucky, on a 926 acre site. The plant employs 105 people and began commercial operation in 1986
• Has one coal-fired generating unit with a station net generating capacity of 420MW
• Pollution-control equipment includes a high-efficiency electrostatic precipitator, low NO_x burners and a state-of-the-art scrubber that removes more than 90 per cent of the sulphur dioxide from the flue gas
• Burns an average of 185 tonnes of coal per hour
• The plant receives coal by rail, truck and barge
• WKE has met the Clean Air Act's Phase II SO² and NOx emission limitations at each station through a system-wide average starting in the year 2000

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