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ADAPT: Advocates urge JEA to phase out Northside Generating Station

JEA’s Northside Generating Station, near Interstate 295 on Heckscher Drive, is in an environmentally sensitive area surrounded by wetlands.
JEA’s Northside Generating Station, near Interstate 295 on Heckscher Drive, is in an environmentally sensitive area surrounded by wetlands.

Environmental advocates are calling for stricter federal pollution limits at JEA’s Northside Generating Station, and they’re urging the city-owned utility to start prioritizing clean, renewable energy sources over the fossil fuels it currently relies on.

JEA’s Northside Generating Station, near I-295 on Heckscher Drive, is in an environmentally sensitive area surrounded by wetlands. The power plant uses a mix of fossil fuels — specifically natural gas, oil, coal and petroleum coke — to generate electricity.

An analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data by the Sierra Club finds that 90% of annual greenhouse gas emissions from large facilities in Duval County over the past 10 years came from JEA. Between 2018 and 2020, 60% of JEA’s greenhouse gas emissions came from the Northside Generating Station itself, according to the report.

Read the rest of this story at ADAPT, a production of WJCT Public Media.

Special Projects Producer Brendan Rivers joined WJCT News in August of 2018 after several years as a reporter and then News Director at Southern Stone Communications, which owns and operates several radio stations in the Daytona Beach area.