An example of current Natural Gas trends.
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Southern plans to build 1,000-megawatt plant near Las Vegas
Filed: 04/07/2000
By Stacie Babula
c.2000 Bloomberg News
Atlanta, April 6 (Bloomberg) ? Southern Co., the largest U.S. power producer, plans to build a 1,000-megawatt plant near Las Vegas capable of lighting 1 million homes.
The cost wasn't disclosed. The natural-gas-fired plant would be at the 10,000-acre Apex Industrial Park, about 15 miles north of the city. Southern plans to help recruit businesses to the site and to have the facility operating in the first quarter of 2003.
Southern owns electric utilities with 3.8 million customers in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. The Atlanta-based company's Southern Energy unit, the Las Vegas project's developer, is buying and building power plants across the U.S. to boost electricity sales to other utilities and large energy users.
Richard J. Pershing, president of Southern Energy's Americas Group, said the Las Vegas economy is one of the fastest growing in the U.S. Southern, which had 1999 sales of $11.6 billion, operates more than 41,000 megawatts of generation in the U.S.
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Build one in Bakersfield too, Mr. Pershing.
I hear that it will have a fast growing economy in the very near future. |
