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Feb 23, 2021Mississippi Power sister companies Alabama Power and Georgia Power do not have plans to close their coal plants, despite Southern Company's net zero emissions target. Southern Company released its net zero implementation plan in September 2020, but did not commit to retirement dates for any of its coal fleet.
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Alabama Power is an investor-owned, tax-paying utility, and the second largest subsidiary of Southern Company. More than 78,000 miles (126,000 km) of power lines carry electricity to customers throughout 44,500 square miles (115,000
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Nov 08, 2022The Alabama Power Company announced Monday the retirement of its oldest power plant, the Gadsden Steam Plant, after 109 years. The plant, located on the Coosa River in Gadsden, was built to produce 10,000-kilowatt hours. "The Gadsden Steam Plant was the catalyst that helped spur the economic growth of Alabama in the early
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Aug 01, 2014Federal environmental mandates are forcing Alabama Power to close two coal-fired generating units at Plant Gorgas and reduce or eliminate the ability to use coal at Plant Barry and Plant Greene County by 2016. Because of rules tied to federal environmental regulations, Alabama Power will close two smaller coal units at Plant
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Georgia Power utilizes transmission lines carrying 115,00 volts, 230,000 volts and 500,000 volts. Georgia Power has interconnections with the Tennessee Valley Authority to the north, Alabama Power Company to the west, South Carolina Gas and Electric and Duke Energy to the east, and Florida Power and Light to the south. [3] Georgia Power and coal
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Jun 25, 2015Google will convert an old coal-fired power plant in rural Alabama into a data centre powered by renewable power, expanding the company's move into the energy world. The Alabama power plant
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Feb 23, 2021Mississippi Power sister companies Alabama Power and Georgia Power do not have plans to close their coal plants, despite Southern Company's net zero emissions target. * Alabama Power owns ~96% of Units 1 and 2 and 100% of Units 3 and 4. ** Georgia Power owns 8.4% of Units 1 and 2 and 75% of Unit 3. *** Georgia Power owns
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Aug 02, 2014Alabama Power's fuel mix will fall from 55 percent coal to approximately 45 percent. The company said in a statement Friday that by 2016 it will close two coal-fired generating units at Plant
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Apr 30, 2021Location: Carson Road, Leroy, AL 36548. GPS Coordinates: 31.488167, -87.910477. Technology: Subcritical. Coal type: Bituminous. Coal Consumption: Coal Source: Calvert City Terminal (Alliance Energy) [1] Number of Employees: Unit Retirements: All units are planned for retirement in 2020. [2] The plant was retired in October 2020.
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Feb 03, 20212.3.2021. Utility firm Alliant Energy has announced the retirement of its last coal-fired power plant in Wisconsin. Alliant will close the Columbia Energy Center by the end of 2024, nearly 50
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May 13, 2013IPL estimated the cost of the Indiana projects as $667 million. In Ohio, AES said its Dayton Power Light (DPL) unit told PJM, the local power grid operator, that it plans to retire the six coal
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Aug 20, 201820 August 2018. Drax has switched on its fourth biomass generating unit – taking the power station in North Yorkshire a step closer to achieving its coal-free ambitions. Work got under way on the conversion as part of a planned maintenance programme in June, with Drax's team of engineers completing the work required, on
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Sep 27, 2022A coastal environmental group filed suit Monday trying to block a decision by Alabama Power Co. to leave millions of tons of coal ash along a riverside in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, where opponents
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In 2019, Alabama had a total summer capacity of 29,256 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 142,679 GWh.[2] The corresponding electrical energy generation mix was 40.1% natural gas, 30.6% nuclear, 18.7% coal, 8.0% hydroelectric, 2.3% biomass, and
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Dec 08, 2021Federal regulations have required Alabama Power to close the pond, which it plans to do by sealing the coal ash in place. the EPA conducted a series of assessments to suss out coal ash units
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Dec 08, 2021Alabama Power, the state's largest utility, owns the waste site, which lacks a liner to contain the ash and is contaminating groundwater. Federal regulations have required Alabama Power to
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Unit Retirements: Units 1-4 were converted to fossil gas in 2015; Unit 5 may be converted to fossil gas by 2028; Conversion to Natural Gas. In May 2012, Alabama Power disclosed that it plans to have its four smaller generating units at Gaston, representing 1,000 megawatts, converted to run on natural gas by 2015.
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Jun 06, 2018Drax moves closer to coal-free future with unit four conversion Drax Power Station today took a step closer to achieving its coal-free ambitions by taking its fourth coal-fired power generating unit offline as part of a
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This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in Alabama, sorted by type and name.In 2019, Alabama had a total summer capacity of 29,256 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 142,679 GWh. The corresponding electrical energy generation mix was 40.1% natural gas, 30.6% nuclear, 18.7% coal, 8.0% hydroelectric,
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Aug 05, 2020Alabama Power, part of Southern Co., converted 10 generators at four coal plants in Alabama from coal to gas during the decade, the most of any power producer in the EIA study.
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Nov 05, 2021Georgia Power plans to remove roughly 3,000 MW of coal in the state, including two of the four units at Plant Bowen and one at Plant Scherer, which is the largest coal plant in the country. Once
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Nov 08, 2022COAL: Alabama Power plans to close a 109-year-old coal-fired power plant in January. (WVTM) ELECTRIC VEHICLES: • An auto parts supplier announces plans to build a factory in Georgia to support 's planned electric vehicle factory. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) • A Virginia warehousing and distribution company runs a battery
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Aug 20, 2018Drax converted its first three coal units to use biomass between 2013 and 2016. 65% of the electricity Drax produced in 2017 was renewable – enough to power four million households. Drax signed up to the Powering Past Coal Alliance in April. The UK-Canadian initiative seeks to end the use of coal by 2030 in developed countries.
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Nov 22, 2021Southern, which operates electric utilities in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, said it will shutter two-thirds of its coal fleet, including units at the nation's two largest coal-fired power
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About 90% of the coal mined in Alabama is exported. Alabama is the sixth-largest hydroelectric power producer among the states. Twenty-three hydroelectric dams provided almost 9% of the state's electricity net generation in 2021. Alabama's three wood pellet plants have a combined production capacity of 683,000 tons a year.
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Aug 01, 2014Federal environmental mandates are forcing Alabama Power to close two coal-fired generating units at Plant Gorgas and reduce or eliminate the ability to use coal at Plant Barry and Plant Greene County by 2016. Because of rules tied to federal environmental regulations, Alabama Power will close two smaller coal units at Plant Gorgas in Walker
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