They’ve torn down two coal fired power plants with in 25 miles of here. I’m sure it’s is the same all over. What to they think we are going to get power from.
Duke Energy blew up these two coal fired power houses near me too.
Some of you rocket scientist should get together and write them a letter informing them of their errors. Duke can't have any idea as to what they are doing.
The two-unit coal plant was built in the 1960s and served customers in Florida for more than five decades. The company retired the plant in 2018 when its 1,640-megawatt Citrus Combined Cycle Station, a natural gas plant, came online.
The 200-foot-tall by 125-foot-wide power houses consisted of boilers, steam turbine generators, drums, motors, pumps and pipes – the main equipment needed to generate 915 megawatts of energy for more than 50 years.
Combined-cycle natural gas units generate energy more efficiently and have significantly lower emissions than coal-fired units. Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other emissions are expected to drop by 90% compared to the two nearby 1960s-era Crystal River coal-fired units, which were retired in December 2018.
The station will provide about $13 million to the economy annually during the station’s 35-year operational life and is expected to generate $4 million in Citrus County property taxes for 2019.
Wait until they go after the natural gas that is fueling the new combined cycle plant.
