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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| Roy Risinger posted Georgia Power Plant Scherer Juliet Georgia. 4- 930 megawatt coal units with scrubbers, Scrs and PAC carbon. Still churning out those megawatts. Decommission date on U3 is 2038 and may be restarting U4 in 18 months if we can buy it from Florida power. Jeff Zak: I was on start-up of U4 as trainee in 1988 with C-E. Didn't appreciate the shear size of it until I returned from other jobs. |
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