Cambria Cogen Company

Ebensburg, PA
This 85 megawatt cogeneration station is located in the bituminous coal mining region of western Pennsylvania. The plant burns bituminous coal mine refuse (commonly called gob or boney) to generate electricity. It also supplies steam to a nearby nursing home. The plant began operating in 1991.

Cogentrix Scrubgrass Generating Plant 
Kennerdell, PA
An 83 megawatt "small power production" facility located in western Pennsylvania. The fuel used in the plant is bituminous coal mine refuse. Full operations at the plant began in 1994.

Ebensburg Power Company

Ebensburg, PA
This 50 megawatt cogeneration station is located in the bituminous coal mining region of western Pennsylvania. It utilizes a circulating fluidized bed boiler to combust bituminous coal mining refuse fuel. Steam from the plant is used to heat a nearby state center for mentally-challenged individuals.

Gilberton Power Company
Frackville, PA
This 80 megawatt cogeneration plant is located in the anthracite coal mining region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is equipped with two circulating fluidized bed boilers that use anthracite coal mining refuse (culm) for fuel. Steam from the plant is used to heat a nearby state correctional facility and in a commercial coal drying facility. The plant was placed in operation in 1988.

Inter-Power/AhlCon Partners, L.P.
Colver, PA
This plant began operations in May 1995. It is located in the bituminous coal mining region of western Pennsylvania. The plant is equipped with a single, large circulating fluidized bed boiler capable of producing 102 megawatts of electricity. As a "small power producer," the plant does not furnish steam for other industries. This is one of Pennsylvania's newest bituminous waste burning plants. See Reclamation Summary 2002 (PDF).

Kimberly Clark - Chester Plant

Chester, PA

Northampton Generating Company, LP Northampton, PA
This is a 107 megawatt cogeneration station in eastern Pennsylvania. The plant burns anthracite coal mining waste using a circulating fluidized bed process.

Northeastern Power Company

McAdoo, PA
This is a 50 megawatt cogeneration station. Known as NEPCO, the plant is located in the eastern, anthracite coal mining region of Pennsylvania. It uses a circulating fluidized bed boiler to combust anthracite coal mining refuse (culm). Steam from the plant is used in a 20 acre greenhouse specializing in flowers.

Panther Creek Partners

Nesquehoning, PA
This is an 83 megawatt small power producer located in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. Fuel for the plant is anthracite coal mining refuse. The plant was placed in operation in 1993.

Piney Creek LP

Clarion, PA
This is a 32 megawatt small power production facility located in western Pennsylvania that began operations in 1992. The fuel used in the plant is bituminous coal refuse.

Reliant Energy (Seward Station)
New Florence, PA
Located in western Pennsylvania, this plant is a 521 megawatt (net) power production facility. The plant, fueled by bituminous coal mining refuse, is equipped with two circulating fluidized bed boilers supplying steam to a single steam turbine. The Seward Station, which became operational in 2004, is the largest coal-refuse-burning plant in the U.S.A.

Schuylkill Energy Resources, Inc.
Shenandoah, PA
This is an 80 megawatt facility equipped with a single circulating fluidized bed boiler burning anthracite coal mining waste. This plant began commercial operations in 1989.

Wheelabrator Frackville Energy Company

Frackville, PA
This 42 megawatt cogeneration station is located in eastern Pennsylvania. Steam from the plant is used to heat a nearby state correctional facility. The plant is located on the site of an abandoned coal mine and burns anthracite coal mining refuse in a circulating fluidized bed boiler.
 

WPS Westwood Generation, LLC
Tremont, PA
WPS Westwood Generation, LLC operates the Westwood Generating Station located in Tremont, Pennsylvania. The 30-megawatt power plant uses a Circulating Fluidized Bed boiler that converts waste coal into low-cost power. Steam from the plant drives a 40,000 horsepower generator that produces enough energy to serve 21,000 homes.