POWER PLANT UPDATE WEIGHED.Byline: Sylvia Sylvia may refer to:
BURBANK Burbank, city (1990 pop. 93,643), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1911. Tourism and the entertainment industry are central to its economy; several motion-picture studios and television headquarters are here. Burbank's aerospace industry collapsed with the end of the Cold War. - With difficulties with deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. being felt throughout the state and the increasing need to generate power locally, the city of Burbank is considering upgrading its Magnolia Magnolia, city, United States Magnolia (măgnō`lyə), city (1990 pop. 11,151), seat of Columbia co., SW Ark.; inc. 1855. Its oil industry has been important since 1938. power plant to cleaner, more cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. units. City officials said the new units would benefit not only Burbank residents by meeting future needs but also might help generate power for other cities and agencies it has partnerships with. ``It gives us an energy source that we can control,'' said City Manager Robert Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. ``Bud'' Ovrom. ``California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). is in a world of hurt for lack of generation. Because of deregulation, no one has built generators in the last 10 years. As a result, there is a terrible deficiency in how much we are consuming and how much we are generating.'' The City Council will consider taking the first step Tuesday toward authorizing the replacement of up to three generator generator, in electricity, machine used to change mechanical energy into electrical energy. It operates on the principle of electromagnetic induction, discovered (1831) by Michael Faraday. units, two that had been retired from the Magnolia power plant several years ago. The city's Public Service Department is recommending spending $2.2 million to apply to the California Energy Commission The California Energy Commission is California’s primary energy policy and planning agency. Created in 1974 and headquartered in Sacramento, the Commission has responsibility for activities that include forecasting future energy needs, promoting energy efficiency through for licensing of a new plant, and to conduct a study on how much energy the city will need. ``We've gone through and done some basic economics, which show that it would be an economic thing to do in light of the shortage of generation in California,'' said Fred Fletcher Fletcher may refer to one of the following: Ideas and companies
If the council agrees to submit a licensing application, the city will still have an option to drop the project later if the market conditions change. City officials said the new power plant would be more streamlined physically and run much cleaner than the current one. The new technology uses 20 percent less fuel while producing 50 percent more energy and emitting e·mit tr.v. e·mit·ted, e·mit·ting, e·mits 1. To give or send out (matter or energy): isotopes that emit radioactive particles; a stove emitting heat. 2. a. 97 percent less pollution. ``The new plant could operate a whole year, and it would generate in one year the amount of pollution that the existing plants generate in a week,'' Fletcher said. The Magnolia plant was built in the 1940s and early 1950s, while the city's power plant on Olive Avenue was constructed in the late 1950s and 1960s. The city has not increased its energy capacity in 10 years. Fletcher said of the city's nine original generating units, two have been retired and two were shut down in 1997 but could potentially be operated again. Public Service Department officials said the city's existing power generating units are old and would need significant retrofitting if they were pressed into service more often. Even though the city has generators, it purchases much of its power and fuel so the units are not used all the time. Fletcher said the size of the plant being considered - at a estimated cost of approximately $150 million - would require that the city enter into partnerships to make it cost effective. He said the city has already had some interest from outside companies and cities in partnerships. Ovrom said that three years ago, with the coming of deregulation, the city would not have imagined it would be considering building a new power plant. But many municipalities that did leave the power generating business and bought their energy from a power grid in anticipation of lower rates were disappointed by higher ones. ``Deregulation is absolutely not playing out the way it was predicted to play out, so now it's clearly advantageous for us to be generating the power,'' Ovrom said. Fletcher said that in addition to the environmental benefits, the proposed plant also is expected to operate at a lower cost, so rates can be lower. And generating more power locally would help keep the power on during an emergency, since it would rely less on remote power sources. The proposal was unanimously approved by the Public Service Department Advisory Board at a meeting earlier this month. But Fletcher said some of the department's larger customers are concerned that a new plant would bring higher rates. |
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