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Rockport Generating Station located just off the new U.S. 231 Route (Now known as the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Parkway) just North of the Natcher Bridge near Rockport Indiana in the United States is a 2.6-GW power plant with one of the tallest smokestacks in the world (1038 feet (316.4 m)). The central smokestack and two cooling towers can be seen from as far west as Evansville 45 miles to the west as far north as the U.S.

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country
United States
fuel type
Bituminous coal
generation units
2 each producing 1300 MW
installed capacity (W)
2.6e+09
location
Ohio Township Spencer County Indiana, Spencer County Indiana, Rockport Indiana
opening year
1984-01-01T00:00:00+02:00, 1989-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
owner
American Electric Power
primary fuel type
Bituminous coal
latitude
37.9256
longitude
-87.0339

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