Clifty Creek Power Plant
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Clifty Creek Power Plant is a 1.3-GW coal-fired power station
Power station
A power station is an industrial facility for the generation of electric energy....

 located in Madison
Madison, Indiana
As of the census of 2000, there were 12,004 people, 5,092 households, and 3,085 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,402.9 people per square mile . There were 5,597 housing units at an average density of 654.1 per square mile...

, Indiana, USA. Five of its six identical units began operating in 1955, the sixth unit was launched in 1956. It has one of the tallest chimneys in the world, at 300 metres (984.3 ft).

Environmental impact

With all of its units dating back to mid-1950s, the plant ranked 49th on the United States list of dirtiest power plants in terms of sulphur dioxide emissions per megawatt-hour of electrical energy produced in 2006.

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