Publication: US Environmental Protection Agency
Year Published: 2015
In 2012, a total of 411 power plants used coal to generate at least 95% of their electricity (EPA 2015). These plants emitted 1,412,038,949 metric tons of CO2 in 2012. Carbon dioxide emissions per power plant were calculated by dividing the total emissions from power plants whose primary source of fuel was coal by the number of power plants.