power price rish by 50%

[CharlesHarris]

Jace, et al

Where I worked near Washington, DC our public works operated a waste-to-energy plant which burned a million tons of municipal solid waste annually and produced 80MW of electricity on a continuing basis. Pollution controls consisted of dry lime scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators and filter fabric baghouses which were effective in removing 99.5% of particulates from the flue gases, as well as reducing nitrous oxides, mercury and dioxins to within the EPA's New Source Performance Standards. The $265 million cost to originally build the plant in the 1980s was paid for by a municipal bond issue. Under the operating permit conditions the electricity was sold to Dominion Resources, operator of the North Anna nuclear power plant, the price per MW/hour being pegged to the current generation cost at North Anna. With the rising costs of electricity and increased depend for power, the bonds were paid off eight years early, and the utility is turning a profit for Convanta Energy Systems, which purchased it from the local government. This has been a very successful example of public-private partnership.

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It can be done.