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I hope your not expecting any "peak" times this summer or your new smart meter will be shutting off your AC or your heat come winter. Gotta get the windmills going and mirrors all over so Obama's cronies can make millions and sit back in their mansions.
The three plants produce 660 megawatts and about 3-percent of FirstEnergy's total generation. In recent years, the plants served as "peaking facilities" and generated power during times of peak demand for power.
The plants operated under subsidiary Monongahela Power. Mon Power recently finished a study of unscrubbed coal fired plants in the system to determine the potential impact of the most recent environmental regulations from EPA. Company officials determined the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) made it unfeasible to retrofit or continue operating the three plants.
“The high cost to implement MATS and other environmental rules is the reason these Mon Power plants are being retired,” said James R. Haney, regional president of Mon Power and president of West Virginia Operations for FirstEnergy.
The announcement follows an announcement from First Energy last month that six coal fired plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland would also be retired. All of those plans are due to be off line and shut down by September 1, 2012.
Three Coal Power Plants Closing - West Virginia Headline News and Talk Radio (http://www.wvmetronews.com/index.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=50837&type - broken link)
Many more to follow. Maybe you have no problem with no electricity to charge your electric car but the greenies will be out screaming at the moon when it comes to that. It will be very funny to watch too.
So, what's the problem? I'm not seeing a problem here.
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The three plants produce 660 megawatts and about 3-percent of FirstEnergy's total generation. In recent years, the plants served as "peaking facilities" and generated power during times of peak demand for power.
If there is nothing to replace their generating capacity during peak usage then the lights go out. That would be a problem, yes?
So, what's the problem? I'm not seeing a problem here.
Of course you don't. Higher electricity costs are no big deal...obama said so in 2008...his energy policy would result in skyrocketing costs AND would bankrupt the coal industry.
Do you realize how much energy is provided by coal?
These are old regulations that they stopped getting exemptions from for the past decade, and there were a number more that lost the exemption status. Regulations to stop pumping out substances like mercury, cadmium and lead into the air to be breathed in by people downwind or precipitated out into the water supply to be drunk. They were operated long past their life expectancy and had decades long standing court cases ordering them to be shut down.
If you want to breathe that crap in fine, but personally if I have to pay a few more cents (god forbid a dollar) so I'm not breathing in heavy metals I'm fine with it. You are more then welcome to move to places where these heinous regulations are not in place and draw a long nice gulp of air.
I can't believe anyone would be defending a companies right to pollute their air with pretty toxic chemicals. Well, I could see it if some one was so against government regulations it affected their cognitive abilities or are not smart enough to understand the effects of heavy metals.
Yes of course the government will provide for all. LOL. You folks are a lost bunch.
"You folks?"
I buy my power from a private electrical power provider....just like you do.
So how does that make me lost?
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