David M. Ratcliffe
{{#badges: CoalSwarm | Climate change}} David M. Ratcliffe has been chairman, president, and chief executive officer of the Southern Company since 2004. Southern Company is the second largest producer of coal-fired energy in the United States.[1] Prior to heading Southern, Ratliffe was CEO of its largest subsidiary Georgia Power, starting in 1999. Prior to running Georgia Power, Ratcliffe was CEO of Mississippi Power, another Southern Company subsidiary.[2]
Ratcliffe joined Georgia Power in 1971 as a biologist, coordinating environmental monitoring and compliance programs in and around power plants. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Valdosta State University in 1970 and his law degree from Woodrow Wilson College of Law in 1975.[2]
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Proposed coal plants
Active
- Seminole 3 (Florida)
- Stanton Energy Center (Florida)
- FutureGen (Illinois)
- Kemper Project (Mississippi) - sponsored by Southern Company subsidiary Mississippi Power
Cancelled
Existing coal-fired power plants
Southern owned 68 coal-fired generating stations in 2005, with 26,610 MW of capacity - making it the biggest coal energy producer in the U.S. Here is a list of Southern's coal power plants:[3][4][5]
11 of these plants, totalling 16,071 MW of generation, are among the nation's dirtiest in terms of SO2 emissions. In 2006, Southern's 22 coal-fired power plants emitted 165.9 million tons of CO2 (2.75% of all U.S. CO2 emissions) and 1,150,000 tons of SO2 (7.67% of all U.S. SO2 emissions).[1]
| Plant Name | State | County | Year(s) Built | Capacity | 2007 CO2 Emissions | 2006 SO2 Emissions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scherer | GA | Monroe | 1982, 1984, 1987, 1989 | 3564 MW | 25,300,000 tons | 74,205 tons |
| Bowen | GA | Bartow | 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975 | 3499 MW | 20,500,000 tons | 206,442 tons |
| Miller | AL | Jefferson | 1978, 1985, 1989, 1991 | 2822 MW | 20,600,000 tons | 53,379 tons |
| Gaston | AL | Shelby | 1960, 1961, 1962, 1974 | 2013 MW | 12,200,000 tons | 130,494 tons |
| Wansley | GA | Heard | 1976, 1978 | 1904 MW | 11,900,000 tons | 96,200 tons |
| Barry | AL | Mobile | 1954, 1959, 1969, 1971 | 1771 MW | 12,800,000 tons | 52,621 tons |
| Harllee Branch | GA | Putnam | 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969 | 1746 MW | 7,551,000 tons | 95,990 tons |
| Yates | GA | Coweta | 1950, 1952, 1957, 1958, 1974 | 1487 MW | 6,095,000 tons | 75,476 tons |
| Gorgas | AL | Walker | 1951, 1952, 1956, 1958, 1972 | 1417 MW | 8,258,000 tons | 81,268 tons |
| Crist | FL | Escambia | 1959, 1961, 1970, 1973 | 1135 MW | 5,737,000 tons | 35,614 tons |
| Victor J. Daniel | MS | Jackson | 1977, 1981 | 1000 MW | 9,094,000 tons | 31,767 tons |
| Hammond | GA | Floyd | 1954, 1955, 1970 | 953 MW | 4,098,000 tons | 40,579 tons |
| Jack Watson | MS | Harrison | 1968, 1973 | 750 MW | 5,075,000 tons | 29,113 tons |
| Jack McDonough | GA | Cobb | 1963, 1964 | 598 MW | 3,213,000 tons | 28,835 tons |
| Greene County | AL | Greene | 1965, 1966 | 568 MW | 3,760,000 tons | 37,863 tons |
| Lansing Smith | FL | Bay | 1965, 1967 | 340 MW | 3,792,000 tons | 48,776 tons |
| Birchwood | VA | King George | 1996 | 258 MW | 1,642,000 tons | N/A |
| Kraft | GA | Chatham | 1958, 1961, 1965 | 208 MW | 1,357,000 tons | 4,658 tons |
| McIntosh | GA | Effingham | 1979 | 178 MW | 1,176,000 tons | 5,713 tons |
| Mitchell | GA | Dougherty | 1964 | 163 MW | 443,000 tons | 4,938 tons |
| Gadsden | AL | Etowah | 1949 | 138 MW | 733,000 tons | 10,062 tons |
| Scholz | FL | Jackson | 1953 | 98 MW | 531,000 tons | 5,920 tons |
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Existing U.S. Coal Plants
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Chief Executive Officer, Southern Company, accessed November 2008.
- ↑ "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005", Energy Information Administration website, accessed April 2008.
- ↑ Environmental Integrity Project, Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants, July 2007.
- ↑ Dig Deeper, Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Aug. 2008.
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