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For Sale: One Coal Plant Priced to Move.

Cobb EMC Holds onto Old Energy

ATLANTA, GA – Concerned about the impact on ratepayers, South Carolina's largest public utility, Santee Cooper, announced the final abandonment of its proposed 600 megawatt Pee Dee coal plant. Now, in an attempt to recoup some of the lost money it poured into the plant’s development, Santee Cooper’s ad in Power Engineering magazine advertises the sale of the used coal plant parts and the land surrounding the project.

“Power4Georgians’ EMCs* have already wasted millions of our dollars on the same outdated dirty coal technology,” said Katherine Helms Cummings, executive director of the Fall-line Alliance for a Clean Environment in Sandersville, where Power4Georgians has proposed a coal-fired plant. “A dirty, expensive coal plant is just as unnecessary for Georgia as it is for South Carolina.”

See the ad yourself:  https://www.santeecooper.com/portal/page/portal/santeecooper/aboutus/wp_sale

* Power4Georgians LLC was organized by Dwight Brown when he was CEO of Cobb EMC (Electric Membership Corporation) and includes Cobb EMC, Snapping Shoals EMC, and Central Georgia EMC, Upson EMC and Washington EMC. 

March 29, 2011

For Immediate Release

Contact:  Erin Glynn (404) 607-1262 x233

Katherine Helms Cummings (478) 232-8010

Gina Wiggins (229) 423-8630