{"id":1178,"date":"2012-01-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/cobb-emc-backing-off-of-coal-at-plant-washington.html"},"modified":"2012-01-13T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T13:00:00","slug":"cobb-emc-backing-off-of-coal-at-plant-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/cobb-emc-backing-off-of-coal-at-plant-washington.html","title":{"rendered":"Cobb EMC backing off of coal at Plant Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could Plant Ben Hill be next?<\/p>\n

\nKim Isaza wrote for MDJOnline yesterday,
\n
\nCobb EMC\u2019s pursuit cools on coal-fired power plant<\/a><\/p>\n

\nCobb EMC’s interest in building the coal-fired Plant Washington
\n
\n<\/a>
\nappears to be dead, and the company has begun soliciting bids for
\nits future power supplies.<\/p>\n

\nThe electric cooperative has already spent $13.5 million toward
\npermitting for the coal plant, which would be a new direction for
\nthe company from simply delivering electricity to also generating
\nit.<\/p>\n

\nOn Jan. 24, Dean Alford, a spokesman for the Power 4 Georgians
\nconsortium of EMCs behind Plant Washington, is slated to address the
\nCobb EMC board, presumably in an effort to save the plant, for which
\nhis company, Allied Energy, got a no-bid development contract from
\nP4G.<\/p>\n

\nThe Cobb EMC board could decide at that meeting whether to put any
\nmore money toward the project.<\/p>\n

\nMany details of the 850-megawatt Plant Washington, including exactly
\nwhy it is needed and any firm idea of what it will cost to build and
\noperate, have been kept quiet, sparking critical questions from EMC
\nmembers and environmental groups. It was proposed under former EMC
\nhead Dwight Brown, who is facing 34 criminal charges of theft and
\nracketeering relating to his leadership at EMC.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So can somebody come up with an 850 MW solar plant to propose by 24 Jan 2012?<\/p>\n

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Could Plant Ben Hill be next? Kim Isaza wrote for MDJOnline yesterday, Cobb EMC\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,216,1127,14,19,20,24],"tags":[8753,8818,969,8710,3155,2741,8714],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-coal","category-cobb-emc","category-economy","category-history","category-law","category-solar","tag-coal","tag-cobb-emc","tag-economics","tag-law","tag-plant-ben-hill","tag-plant-washington","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}