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Two additional nuclear units are being constructed at this plant site in Georgia.
What is Plant Vogtle?
100
Joint production of electricity and useful heat/steam from a common source.
What is cogeneration?
100
This caused the delay of Plant Mitchell’s Biomass Conversion.
What is the Industrial Boiler MACT?
100
Southern Company is ranked 149 on this listing of the largest U. S. corporations.
What is FORTUNE 500?
100
This company serves wholesale customers in the Southeast, primarily through long-term contracts.
What is Southern Power?
200
This location will be the site of a generating plant that will have 65 percent carbon capture and sequestration.
What is Kemper County, Miss?
200
An annual adjustment in rates based on changes in the price of fuel used to generate electricity.
What is the fuel adjustment clause?
200
This recently proposed rule addresses ozone and fine particle pollution.
What is the Clean Air Transport Rule?
200
Southern Company is a founding member of this nuclear technology energy consortium comprised of power generation companies and reactor vendors which helps utilities work through the licensing approval process.
What is NuStart Energy?
200
Georgia Power Company opened two child care centers meeting this nationally accepted third-party benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high-performance green buildings.
What is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System)?
300
This is the host site for a U.S. DOE carbon sequestration demonstration project where approximately 3,000 tons of carbon dioxide are injected and being monitored.
What is Plant Daniel (in Mississippi)?
300
A regional organization of electric companies interconnected for the sharing of reserve generating capacity.
What is the power pool?
300
This law, passed in 1978 by the United States Congress as part of the National Energy Act, is meant to promote greater use of renewable energy.
What is the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA)?
300
Association of U.S. Shareholder-Owned Electric Companies whose members serve 95 percent of the ultimate customers in the shareholder-owned segment of the industry, and represent approximately 70 percent of the U.S. electric power industry.
What is the Edison Electric Institute (EEI)?
300
When this Alabama Power Company founder turned over control of the company to James Mitchell in 1912, he did so with these words, which continue to guide the company today: "I now commit to you the good name and destiny of Alabama Power. May it be developed for the service of Alabama."
Who is William Patrick Lay?
400
The conversion of Unit 3 at this Georgia plant from coal-fueled to biomass-fueled would make it one of the largest biomass power plants in the country.
What is Plant Mitchell?
400
This dispatch model is used to estimate production cost on the system.
What is Strategist?
400
This bill changed the start and end dates of daylight saving time starting in 2007.
What is the Energy Policy Act of 2005?
400
Southern Company supports the ENERGY STAR "Change a Light, Change the World" campaign, an EPA- Department of Energy nationwide effort to change incandescent bulbs to these.
What are compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs?
400
This set of corporate values include Unquestionable Trust, Superior Performance, and Total Commitment.
What is Southern Style?
500
This project includes a 19 mile pipeline that goes through an existing power line right-of-way.
What is Plant McDonough CC?
500
Small particles of airborne ash produced by burning fossil fuels.
What is fly ash?
500
Only SoCo state that participates in the seasonal NOX program?
What is Mississippi?
500
This reactor will be used at Plant Vogtle and is the only one to receive design certification from the NRC.
What is the Westinghouse AP1000?
500
More than 10 million tons of trash has been removed because of this program in the Southeast.
What is Renew our Rivers?