Mitchell Steam Generating Plant (Georgia)
{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Mitchell Steam Electric Generating Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Southern Company near Albany, Georgia.
On March 19, 2009, the Georgia Public Service Commission approved a request from Georgia Power to convert the coal-fired power plant to burn woody biomass. When the transition is completed, Mitchell will be the first biomass plant in the fleet of Georgia Power's parent Southern Company and "the largest biomass facility in the United States," according to Southern COO Tom Fanning.[1]
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Plant Data
- Owner: Georgia Power Company
- Parent Company: Southern Company
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 163 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 163 MW (1964)
- Location: 5200 Radium Springs Rd., Albany, GA 31705
- GPS Coordinates: 31.444556, -84.136722
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Emissions Data
- 2006 CO2 Emissions: 679,638 tons
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Legislative issues
House Bill 276, proposed by Margaret Oliver (D-Decatur), would put a 5-year moratorium on building new coal plants and eliminate the burning of Appalachian coal mined by mountaintop removal by mid-2016. The Appalachian Mountain Preservation Act would gradually prohibit Georgia coal consumers from using Central Appalachian mountaintop removal beginning in 2011. The bill is backed by environmental groups including Appalachian Voices but received strong opposition from POWER4Georgians, a coalition of 10 electric co-operatives seeking to build a $2 billion 850-megawatt supercritical coal plant in Washington County.[2][3]
Citizen groups
- CleanPower4Georgians
- Fall-line Alliance for Clean Environment
- Focus the Nation
- Friends of the Chattahoochee
- GreenLaw
- Sierra Club Georgia Chapter
- Co-op Conversations Georgia
- Cobb Alliance for Smart Energy
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ Joseph Romm, Biomassive plans: Southern Company embraces the only affordable way to 'capture' emissions at a coal plant today, Grist, March 19, 2009.
- ↑ "Georgia bill proposes moratorium on new coal plants," Reuters, February 4, 2009.
- ↑ Margaret Newkirk, "Bill would restrict coal power plants," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 4, 2009.
- Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
- Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
- Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
- Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.
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- Existing U.S. Coal Plants
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- Southern Company
- United States and coal
- Global warming
