This post was motivated by Roy Risinger's comment on a post: "We have 4 930 mw GE’s where I work all powered by coal." Almost a gigawatt is a big generating unit.
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| gem "The plant has four units, each rated at 891 megawatts (MW) and producing 880 MW. It has two 1001-foot [305m] chimneys, the first built in 1982 and the second in 1986. Scherer is the fifth largest electric generating plant in the United States." |
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| GeorgiaPower, cropped They are planning to dewater their ash pond. |
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| Juan Aburto, May 2021, cropped |
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| usgs "Robert W Scherer Power Plant in Georgia (Plant Scherer) is one of the largest coal-fired thermoelectric power-production facilities in the United States. It is a 3,520,000-kilowatt coal-fired facility that provides electricity for Georgia." [That agrees with the 880mw/unit figure.] |
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| emcorgroup It is the largest coal-fired steam plant on the east coast. [So it should be no surprise that it is a large polluter. There are lots of Google search results headlining that it is a significant polluter. But I don't have the stomach to look at them to see if any of them ranked the plant according to pollution/gw.] |
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