Friday, March 02, 2007

Florida Power and Light: What choice did they make?

So here we have Florida Power and Light --- the owner of the largest Industrial Wind "farm" (Altamont Pass) 4,000 turbines, and what do you think they are opening this year? More wind farms right?

After all YES!WindCohocton tells all of us that the choice for us is wind or a destructive fossil fuel burning plant.... so if we "choose" more wind, then we won't get more bad power plants.

FPL, what choice did they make? Did they chose wind over coal, natural gas or nuclear?

Western Palm Beach County:
...two new, state-of-the-art, natural gas-fired combined-cycle generating units to a 220-acre site in western Palm Beach County. The new units would be clean, efficient, reliable and cost-effective new sources of power capable of serving the equivalent of 466,000 homes and businesses.

Featuring natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power plant technology.
Utilizing a site designated by the county for power plant development.
Capable of serving 466,000 homes and businesses.
Located in an industrial section of western Palm Beach County.
Providing numerous temporary construction jobs.
Offering 40 to 50 new full-time jobs.
Located near existing power transmission lines needed to move electricity from the plant to growing communities

Glades County:
...FPL must add to its power generation capacity. The company is proposing to build an advanced technology coal power plant in Glades County, Florida.

Turkey Point Unit #5:
In August 2003, FPL announced the need to add new resources to begin serving customers in 2007 and our plan to meet that need by adding a new combined-cycle generating unit to our existing Turkey Point site about 25 miles south of Miami near Florida City.

Manatee Unit #3:
That's why we're proposing to add by 2005 a new, state-of-the-art, natural gas generating unit at the same site.

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