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.
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