Record number of coal-fired generators to be shut down in 2012

July 29th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Michael Bastasch
Daily Caller
July 29, 2012

FLASHBACK: Obama Advances Plan to “Bankrupt” Coal Industry With New CO2 Limits

Facing declining demand for electricity and stiff federal environmental regulations, coal plant operators are planning to retire 175 coal-fired generators, or 8.5 percent of the total coal-fired capacity in the United States, according to an analysis by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

A record-high 57 generators will shut down in 2012, representing 9 gigawatts of electrical capacity, according to EIA. In 2015, nearly 10 gigawatts of capacity from 61 coal-fired generators will be retired.

While many of those coal plants are old and relatively inefficient, the scope of this new planned shutdown is unprecedented.

“The coal-fired capacity expected to be retired over the next five years is more than four times greater than retirements performed during the preceding five-year period,” EIA noted in the analysis.

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15 Responses to “Record number of coal-fired generators to be shut down in 2012”

Yeah, I can see new and improved designs in electrical generation using coal, is wonderful news. When I see the old days of how they’d have to shovel the mess, they were some dirty times ! Times have changed, and for the better too. Fabricating coal for cleaner and better efficiency into the production of electricity is a great idea, it certainly beats the pollution affects nuclear is doing !

Evildick11 Reply:
July 29th, 2012 at 6:07 am

Jeff this is pure corruption. The reason they are shutting these plants down so GE and charge more for power at their plants and put you in the 3rd world. This is not about cleaner air.
Funny, they announce they are going to retire these plants because they are too expensive but…
There is no mention of what they are going to replace them with or the cost of replacing them.
Sounds like, people better start looking for a 3rd Job.

Who thinks your going to get cheaper watts after this?
“Facing declining demand for electricity ….”

This is how we defeat the beast: we starve it. We have no more demand for it. Stop buying power with paper money. The money just feeds the beast. Turn away from cheap, easy, temporal power and the beast will die. Walk, bicycle, do it by hand, use a push mower, hang out your laundry, fix it, stop buying, these are all ways to stop the beast. Grow it yourself, use the sun’s power, trade with local people, turn off the TV, etc.. We will build a strong, affordable, sustainable, healthy world without corruption.
It was a long, long time ago that I first heard of the “Space Blind” Project…a plan to place in geosynchronous orbit at a LaGrange point a solar collector that would beam back the harvested energy to receiving stations on the ground.

There were at least four STS missions, Space Shuttle missions that confirmed the technical concepts of the plan. The estimated harvest represented at least 5 times the total power represented by the nuclear industry.

Then there was word that China was willing to prepay for participation in the program to fuel their growing manufacturing sector.

Finally, last year there was a quiet announcement that the Obama administration had entered into a sale of this technology to China who would forward the development and actually implement the program…

Didn’t hear about this? Yeah, are you really surprised about what is not told to us or if intentionally kept from us?

There is also a program talked about in Congressional hearings about wave motion capture generators that were to be placed under wave forming coastal areas to harvest that energy source and another to harvest heat from deep within the Earth’s mantle…both huge renewable, abundant sources.

But the provisional powers that be want you to believe that coal, shale, oil and nuclear reactors are the only choices available BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONLY INDUSTRIES GENERATING REVENUES THAT ARE ALLOWED TO BE USED TO BRIBE PUBLIC OFFICIALS INTO SUPPORTING THEIR CONTINUED INDUSTRIAL PROFITS.

We need an independent Justice Department program to start the prosecution for treason of individuals and companies that bribe those in public office, those who are running for public office or who have retired from public office and are being paid for their ‘service’ while in office.
mccombs.utexas.edu/ departments/ ~/ media/ E754CC1B6BB146BA83B6D0A68E1B26CA.ashx
This is from a paper concerning the situation in TX but applies well elsewhere:

“Coal-fired power plants have had an increasingly difficult time competing in electricity markets because of rapid growth of gas-fired and wind energy generation. In competitive electricity markets… marginal costs drive electricity pricing, and wind and natural gas-fired generation have very low marginal costs compared to coal. Thus, competition seems the most important driver of current coal-fired power plant woes.
Still, it is also true that the costs of compliance with the EPA’s cross-state and mercury rules are contributing to those woes, at least at the margins.1 The cross-state rule has been stayed by a federal court pending resolution of a legal challenge, but is expected to impose significant compliance costs on coal-fired power plants when it takes effect. The EPA has acknowledged the potentially significant impact of the mercury rule on electricity supplies, and has given power plants up to four years to comply with the rule: indeed, it has indicated that it will consider giving certain supply-essential plants additional compliance flexibility.
…In most of the… country with competitive retail electricity markets (mainly in the northeast and middle Atlantic states), market regulators meet… reserves targets using so-called “capacity markets,” which pay plant owners to make their plant capacity available in the future, irrespective of whether the plant ever dispatches any electricity to the grid. …
1 The new greenhouse gas rule for power plants does not affect existing plants, but will effectively preclude construction of new coal-fired power plants under current market conditions. It should have little to no effect on the construction of new combined cycle gas turbines.

The plan is let the older plants go, claim that the government has forced up the cost of doing business, increase rates, initiate power shortages such that cities will tax their citizens out the wazoo to build the new in-compliance plants and even offer tax incentives and bribes to get power companies to build in their state/city. Meanwhile all our coal gets shipped to China which makes the coal-energy companies more money than they get for it here.

Rich Riggs USA Reply:
July 29th, 2012 at 6:59 am

Tax and spend is bad enough but “Defraud, Spend and Tax to pay for it” is another form of treason and tyranny as I see it…

The more we allow money to buy influence, the further down this road we will go…
Just another socialist/Satanist nail in our coffin, pure and simple.

Coal is our most abundant resource and contains awesome BTU’s. No one in their right mind would close down coal powered power plants where $billions have been spent trying to keep up with constantly changing EPA rules, unless, of course, they had ulterior motives. If clean air is so important why is it that only the US is required to shut down coal powered plants. China does not take orders from our EPA, nor should they. Pollution from coal powered plants is the least of our worries as a nation, and as a world.

For decades, coal was king here. Yes, there was some pollution but in the scheme of things coal, along with associated rails and electricity, were the physical items that turned us into the strongest, richest nation on earth. That is all to change now under the leadership of the treasonous Satanist SOBs now in charge. They are determined to continue the process of converting us into a Third World nation in all respects in preparation for their beloved NWO and the antichrist. They have already done so with our public schools, perhaps the best explanation we have for the monsters we have voted into office from county level up.

We are not only stupid, but damned as well.
Only 3 post showed before I logged in. Last post shown was timothykey and evildicks reply was not shown.
As I have said many times,,, they are ashamed of those that ‘supposedly’ finance AJ’s operation..

I guess they don’t want passerby’s to see our ‘stupid’ comments. Even Pravda doesn’t censor their posters.

Now what was I going to post? Forgot,,, Probably be censored anyhow…

GetitGotitGood Reply:
July 29th, 2012 at 6:29 am

and this site is copyrighted by “Free Speech Systems. LLC company”

Go figure

Rich Riggs USA Reply:
July 29th, 2012 at 7:01 am

You mean that its similar in character to “Humanitarian Bombing of Cities”?
another REAL and renewable source they WONT discuss
(while huge corporate milk and hog farms brag about it!)
is retro-fitting all the existing sewage treatment plants to collect and burn methane,
which CAN provide up to half our demand for electricity,
and the fuel delivery system is already in place.

Ho of Babylon Reply:
July 29th, 2012 at 7:03 am

yes, we are hog country in NC, and this is done already here on a small scale but growing rapidly; unfortunately it is partly financed from the carbon offset industry crowd like Apple and Google; once they gets their hooks in then the savings to customers from its cost-effectiveness will disappear.
articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/25/nation/la-na-hogs-waste-20111225
Thomas Jefferson was right. An agrarian human society, as
opposed to an inner city lifestyle, would be muck more practical, when considering the preservation of a constitutional republic and a true, idyllic democracy.
In an agrarian society, food production would be the dominant theme, or synthesis, whereas industrial production would be less dominant, e.i. limited and on a local level, meaning that the sovereign, territorial inhabitants ( settlers ) wouldn’t have to travel very far to get their goods and supplies.

Unfortunately, that’s not what we have today. We have a
helter skelter society, that’s run by a bunch of control freaks,
controlling our money, controlling the weather, controlling
our minds. How did we arrive at this juncture ?

I think it’s because people in general, just don’t give a damn
about anything anymore. They just want to live out their
selfish lives and flip everyone else off.
Well, they gonna get their own little personal reward
in the end.
and our coal will be shipped over to asia. we are not allowed to use our own natural resources. but other countries can.