Could Plant Ben Hill be next?

Kim Isaza wrote for MDJOnline yesterday,

Cobb EMC’s pursuit cools on coal-fired power plant

Cobb EMC’s interest in building the coal-fired Plant Washington


appears to be dead, and the company has begun soliciting bids for
its future power supplies.

The electric cooperative has already spent $13.5 million toward
permitting for the coal plant, which would be a new direction for
the company from simply delivering electricity to also generating
it.

On Jan. 24, Dean Alford, a spokesman for the Power 4 Georgians
consortium of EMCs behind Plant Washington, is slated to address the
Cobb EMC board, presumably in an effort to save the plant, for which
his company, Allied Energy, got a no-bid development contract from
P4G.

The Cobb EMC board could decide at that meeting whether to put any
more money toward the project.

Many details of the 850-megawatt Plant Washington, including exactly
why it is needed and any firm idea of what it will cost to build and
operate, have been kept quiet, sparking critical questions from EMC
members and environmental groups. It was proposed under former EMC
head Dwight Brown, who is facing 34 criminal charges of theft and
racketeering relating to his leadership at EMC.

So can somebody come up with an 850 MW solar plant to propose by 24 Jan 2012?

-jsq