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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
What do New Hampshire Wal-Marts do for electricity?
I read in the Wall St Journal a couple years ago that all the Wal-Marts in the east buy their electricity from the Southern Power Co, based in Atlanta, Georgia which is generated with coal shipped by rail from Wyoming to a Southern Power plant in Alabama that burns the coal cranking out a low price electric power.
Does this seem believable?
A few words between Junior and Jethro down at dat Alabama power plant, burn'n dat Wyoming soft coal.
Say-hey there Jethro ...... looks like we get-um one mo train-o-coal here to be unloading fo that there Wal-Mart power ...... yo heave ho ...... yessum ..... is sho 'nuf dat here Wal-Mart power, Junior ...... ah do declare!
So, say there Jethro ....... what all small north east state has some very very pricey electric power ...... doncha know ....... why is it that poor little state up north ...... is so cold New Hampshire ....... brrrrrrr!
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Southern owns many generating stations including Plant Vogtle in Waynseboro Georgia. Voglte currently has 2 Westinghouse reactors making a little over 2400 MW of power. They are currently building 2 new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors, units 3&4. When done, the will make around 4500 MW/ hour of clean carbon-less power. That is enough to power 2 million homes.