Facility detail

WHELAN ENERGY CENTER (WEC 1 HU WEC 2 PPGA)

4520 E S ST, HASTINGS, NE, 68901

Parent company: HASTINGS UTILITIES / PUBLIC POWER GENERATION AGENCY

Carcinogen PBT — EPA classifications across all reporting years

Year-over-year total releases

Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.

Top chemical totals

The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.

Full release table

Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.

All values in pounds (lbs)
Year Hydrogen fluoride Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) Barium Ammonia Chromium Total (lbs)
2024 — — 1,347 1,454 — 2,860
2023 — — 1,397 1,266 — 2,717
2022 — — 1,464 1,929 — 3,467
2021 — — 1,459 1,557 — 3,078
2020 — — 1,240 1,275 — 2,566
2019 — — 1,469 2,068 — 3,607
2018 — — 1,657 1,974 — 3,722
2017 — — 1,672 1,549 320 3,629
2016 — — 1,682 1,735 346 3,866
2015 — — 1,751 1,833 381 4,081
2014 — — 1,959 2,195 431 4,797
2013 — — 1,046 2,493 — 3,716
2012 — — 942 1,814 — 2,877
2011 — — 568 1,697 — 2,454
2010 — — 186 — — 245
2009 — — 209 — — 239
2008 40,698 — 267 — — 41,017
2007 39,096 — 261 — — 39,407
2006 25,193 — 193 — — 25,428
2005 32,636 — 216 — — 32,903
2004 — — 177 — — 181
2003 29,709 26,212 137 — — 56,063
2002 26,116 — 123 — — 26,250
2001 19,226 25,040 222 — — 44,489
2000 32,156 — 200 — — 32,356
1999 31,335 — 185 — — 31,520
1998 23,039 — 5,233 — — 28,272

▎ Facilities report to EPA's TRI once they manufacture, process, or use a listed chemical above set thresholds. Once that threshold is crossed, they must report actual releases regardless of size — so a small number reflects genuine low-level discharge, not a data error.