Progress Energy to Close 3 Coal Powered Plants in Eastern North Carolina

Progress Energy has announced that it plans to close coal fired plants in eastern NC. These plants were built in 1952, 1951, and 1962.

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/5819496/

I am glad that they are doing this now and I hope that the cleaner energy produced when they build a newer natural gas fueled plant (with less CO2 emissions) in eastern NC, will help keep wind turbines away from the coast. I wonder how many wind turbines, and what size, operating at 30% capacity factor, would be required to have the same 550 Megawatts generating capacity increase that is planned with this new plant.

I will work on that figure....you might be amazed.

This project is pending regulatory permissions. This is a step in the right direction in my opinion.