Doug wrote:
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:09:22 -0500, "Colbyt"
wrote:

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WHERE????

Doug

Central Kentucky KU Energy Actual bill 10/26/06

base rate (not full electric) 0.053629343629344 per KWH
Actual rate with all the crap and taxes added on 0.068429858429858 per KWH

Total electric is a little cheaper.


Colbyt


What's the energy source for their generators? Hydroelectric?
Are you part of the Tennesse Valley Authority's hydroelectric
generating plants?

Nuclear?

Any fossil fuel generation can't supply electricity at those rates...
The parts of the USA that depend on fossil fuel generating plants have
to charge about 3 times your quoted rates. That's about 80% of the
country.

TVA grid-wide generation mix is roughly 60% fossil (coal), 30% nuclear,
and 10% hydro.

Central KY would be closest to Paradise Fossil Plant so it's safe to
assume most of Colby's power is generated there (by burning coal).

It's been about 5-6 years since last I was there, but at that time they
were working very hard on blending coals to utilize far more western
low-sulfur coal than had been. I was there in support of a R&D project
to evaluate a new type of on-line elemental analyzer to hopefully use
its data as part of the blending operation. I got tired of the travel
after moving (Central City, KY, isn't the easiest place to get to from
W KW , despite being the home of the Everly Brothers), so left the
follow-on of the project to a colleague at Kingston so consequently
don't actually know how it turned out...of course, the local coal
producers of KY and IL were not pleased by the proposed shift and at
one time there was a major effort in state legislatures to require at
least a certain fraction of local high-sulfur coals be used by TVA to
support the local coal industry. Where that currently stands I also
don't know...

Everything (and more, undoubtedly) than you wanted to know...

http://www.tva.gov/sites/sites_ie2.htm
http://www.tva.gov/sites/paradise.htm