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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 5664231" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>Having difficulty reading? I said 1500 homes. Understand Florida is not a rate deregulated state. That keeps old plants running because they serve a regulated market. They can get the raises they want through rate requests made to the state of Florida to generate electricity to pay for all that air conditioning just to keep Florida livable In deregulated states such as mine what shut the big old coal and nuclear down was their inability to win contracts in a deregulated market at rates that allowed those plants to operate profitably. In addition, many of those big old coal plants that you love so dearly were built 50+ years ago and now need timely and expensive overhauls that further inhibits their chances of competing. </p><p></p><p>Now I know how much some of you guys still want to live in the 1950's I 've got a story for you. At the other end of my county is an old coal power plant built in 1954. About 10 years ago the utility seeing how much it would cost to upgrade the plant sold it to a third party operator. That new operator spent big money to convert it to natural gas believing that it could compete as a base load plant. Didn't turn out that way. Today is a supplemental load plant that only runs when the grid says it needs the power. </p><p></p><p>I think you would do yourself a favor if you too read and familiarized yourself with the HB6/Generation Now scandal. If you did you would come to the understanding that solutions are just not quite as easy to come by as Fox News has you believing they are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 5664231, member: 58386"] Having difficulty reading? I said 1500 homes. Understand Florida is not a rate deregulated state. That keeps old plants running because they serve a regulated market. They can get the raises they want through rate requests made to the state of Florida to generate electricity to pay for all that air conditioning just to keep Florida livable In deregulated states such as mine what shut the big old coal and nuclear down was their inability to win contracts in a deregulated market at rates that allowed those plants to operate profitably. In addition, many of those big old coal plants that you love so dearly were built 50+ years ago and now need timely and expensive overhauls that further inhibits their chances of competing. Now I know how much some of you guys still want to live in the 1950's I 've got a story for you. At the other end of my county is an old coal power plant built in 1954. About 10 years ago the utility seeing how much it would cost to upgrade the plant sold it to a third party operator. That new operator spent big money to convert it to natural gas believing that it could compete as a base load plant. Didn't turn out that way. Today is a supplemental load plant that only runs when the grid says it needs the power. I think you would do yourself a favor if you too read and familiarized yourself with the HB6/Generation Now scandal. If you did you would come to the understanding that solutions are just not quite as easy to come by as Fox News has you believing they are. [/QUOTE]
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