Posted on 09/29/2015 6:33:25 AM PDT by Controlling Legal Authority
For more than 100 years, coal-fired boilers at the Municipal Power Plant have helped power the city's electric needs. At 5:30 p.m. Sept. 22, the last day of summer, the Municipal Power Plant burned its last load of coal.
The city-owned plant's two coal-fired boilers join a growing number of small, aging coal-fired units across the country that have gone cold in the face of tighter environmental regulations on emissions. A third boiler will continue to burn natural gas. To meet both regulations, Johanningmeier said, the plant would have had to refit the boilers with emissions-reducing equipment costing tens of millions of dollars.
The most pressing, an EPA regulation that manages ash wastes from coal combustion, takes effect on Oct. 19. If the plant were to keep producing ash wastes, Johanningmeier said, the ruling would require the plant to install a costly new system for handling and storing dry ash.
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“the ruling would require the plant to install a costly new system for handling and storing dry ash.”
Upstate NY sands the winter roads with fly ash.
We’ll probably find out down the road that MORE of that federal stimulus funding actually goes to support this coal phase out. Keep electric rates from rising in the present by hiding the change over costs and increases. Then when the utility continues the following year, yank the funding and the consumers be screwed.
How many flies are sacrificed to get that many ashes?
Bazillions!
Mostly horse flies.
Soon, America will be freezing in the dark.
Will this mean the city having to turn to other sources for electricity or can they produce enough with the one boiler? will the EPA be satisfied when they have everybody bankrupt or will they still want more?
Oh, ashes! Never mind.
When I was a kid those stacks belched black smoke.
Since the baghouse installation you can barely see the exhaust most days.
The EPA is out of control.
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