Enviro-lawsuit forces five Indiana coal plants to shut down | The Daily Caller
Get prepping, Enviro Nazis are winning.
Get prepping, Enviro Nazis are winning.
The Sierra Club and other environmental groups have been targeting coal plants nationwide for retirement, which they say contribute to global warming and cause health problems.
As part of the settlement, Duke Energy also agreed to create a feed-in tariff program to purchase at least 30 megawatts of solar power from Indiana customers or buy or install 15 megawatts of green power capacity. A feed-in tariff allows customers to sell back home-generated solar power to electric utilities.
Anybody have any information just how much this will affect the cost of electricity - even if it's just an educated guess?
They list the source as Category:Existing coal plants in Indiana - SourceWatchI found this. I know..... it's Wikipedia....
There's too much for me to go through.
List of power stations in Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Well, if Duck Energy is involved, then you know the cost to consumers will be going up.
The other thing to think remember is that the peak MW production can only be achieved when all of the mills are productive. We went to Chicago for a X-Mas trip a couple of Christmases ago and when we drove past all of those windmills up by Rensselaer I estimated that about 1 in 6 were NOT turning. And the project could have only been about 3 or 4 years completed. The other thing is that wind farm has a footprint of about 70,000 acres and generates up to 400MW. The E. Harding St. (E. W. Stout) coal fired generating plant can put out up to 1170 MW with a footprint of about 600 acres or so.
These 6 plants are now scheduled to go off-line in 2018. When would they have gone off-line if the SC hadn't gotten involved?
Looks like I'm going to be looking into solar panels for my home in the next 5 years.