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Photo: State of Delaware

There is another species that is on the verge of extinction, and I could not be happier!  Coal fired power plants are slowly fading into history! In the past couple of years, 95 of the proposed coal fired power plants have been either put off or cancelled altogether. This figure counts for nearly half of the total of proposed plants since 2000.

The plants that have been placed on hold are eagerly awaiting word from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on whether limits will be placed on carbon dioxide emissions, due to the clean air act.  If a cap is put into place, this will inevitably put a halt to the construction of any new coal-fired power plants across the nation! Utility companies know this and are beginning to step back from coal and look to the future with clean, renewable energy!

If off shore wind power were completely developed off the east coast, the windmills could generate enough electricity to replace nearly all coal-fired power plants in the nation, according to Ken Salazar, Secretary of the U.s Department of the Interior. The winds off the ocean could generate 1 million megawatts of power, which is the same amount that 3,000 coal-fired plants could produce. It would take many years to build a fully operating off shore wind system, but now is time to start moving in that direction, before it’s too late.

~Wind

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