{"id":152,"date":"2013-02-02T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/denmark-beats-georgia-powers-20-year-plan.html"},"modified":"2013-02-02T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T19:33:10","slug":"denmark-beats-georgia-powers-20-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/denmark-beats-georgia-powers-20-year-plan.html","title":{"rendered":"Denmark beats Georgia Power’s 20 year plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n
\n<\/a>
\nAs
\n
\nanticipated,<\/a>
\nGeorgia Power released
\nthat
\n
\n20-year energy plan Thursday,<\/a>
\nbecause they have file one every three years with the PSC.
\nIt includes far less solar power than tiny little far-north-of-here
\nDenmark is busily deploying.\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\nThe good news:
\nGeorgia Power is closing a bunch of coal plants.
\nAnd this plan makes a nod towards
\n"demand response programs, energy efficiency programs, pricing
\ntariffs and other activities".\n<\/p>\n

\nThe bad news:
\nthey're replacing those coal plants with natural gas, and of course
\n"two new state-of-the-art nuclear facilities at Plant Vogtle";
\nyou know, the two
\n
\nGeorgia Power has been charging customers for since 2009
\nwhile they deliver no electricity.<\/a>
\nGeorgia Power
\ncan't even seem to deliver the reactor containment vessels.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut what about renewable energy?<\/p>\n


\n
\n<\/a>
\nGeorgia Power names that dead last, just like
\nits parent Southern Company.<\/a>
\nSo if anybody was
\n
\nbetting against that<\/a>, unfortunately Georgia loses.\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nAs part of the IRP, the company continues to demonstrate its firm
\ncommitment to identify all cost-effective renewable resources to
\nbenefit customers, with 1,088 MW of hydro generation, 63 MW of solar
\ngeneration and 142 MW of biomass generation in service or under
\ncontract today. By the end of 2016, the company expects to have more
\nthan 1,500 MW of renewable generation available to serve customers.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nLet's see, 1500 – 1088 = 412 MW.
\nOf that:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nAfter all resources are added through the GPASI, the company expects
\nto have 270 MW of solar capacity under contract in Georgia.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThe PR doesn't mention wind power at all.\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\nMeanwhile
\n
\nDenmark is installing
\n36 MW of solar power a month<\/a>,
\nso in the four years to the end of 2016, at that rate
\nDenmark will have installed 4 * 12 * 36 = 1,728 MW of new solar energy,
\nor more than 6 times Georgia Power's goal for renewable energy.
\nOh, and
\n
\nDenmark already has 200 MW of solar installed, ahead of schedule.<\/a>
\nSo that would be around 1,928 MW of solar power in Denmark by the end
\nof 2016, compared to Georgia Power's goal of 270 MW.
\nSo Denmark wins this projection comparison by more than 7 times.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/th>\nGeorgia<\/th>\nDenmark<\/th>\npercent DK of GA<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Population<\/th>\n\n
\n9,919,945 (2012 est)<\/a><\/td>\n
\n5,336,394 (2000)<\/a><\/td>\n		54%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Land Area
(sq mi)<\/th>\n		59,425<\/td>\n16,640<\/td>\n\n28%\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Insolation
(kWh\/m2\/day)<\/th>\n		\n
\n2.51 min 6.15 max
(Valdosta)<\/a><\/td>\n		\n
\n0.39 min 5.43 max
(Copenhagen)<\/a><\/td>\n		16% min 88% max<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\nTiny little Denmark, with barely more than a quarter of the land area
\nand half the population of Georgia and much less sunshine,
\nis beating Georgia Power hands-down in installing solar power.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe better news:\n<\/p>\n

\n"The PSC is expected to vote on the company's IRP request this summer."\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIt's just a plan and the PSC has to approve it.
\nWhat say we ask the PSC to modify it quite a bit?\n<\/p>\n

\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As anticipated, Georgia Power released that 20-year energy plan Thursday, because they have file one every three years with the PSC. It includes far less solar power than tiny little far-north-of-here Denmark is busily deploying. The good news: Georgia Power is closing a bunch of coal plants. And this plan makes a nod towards "demand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,216,14,264,265,16,17,8,18,2,104,559,21,22,32,23,24,53,55,36],"tags":[771,8745,8753,772,8704,8754,8755,8706,8707,8701,8708,8699,8702,12,7,562,8737,8782,8711,8712,8715,8713,8714,8725,6,8727,8716],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co2","category-coal","category-economy","category-energy-conservation","category-energy-efficiency","category-environment","category-ga-psc","category-georgia","category-georgia-power","category-government","category-nuclear","category-oil","category-planning","category-politics","category-pollution","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-sustainability","category-water","category-wind","tag-clean-coal","tag-co2","tag-coal","tag-denmark","tag-economy","tag-energy-conservation","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-environment","tag-ga-psc","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-power","tag-government","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-natural-gas","tag-nuclear","tag-oil","tag-planning","tag-politics","tag-pollution","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar","tag-sustainability","tag-valdosta","tag-water","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","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=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}