(Photo by Phil Taylor)Gaffney, South Carolina’s one-million gallon “Peachoid.”
Did you know Cherokee County, S.C., once produced more peaches than the entire state of Georgia? A million-gallon, peach-shaped water tower built along I-85 was my first hint while driving into Gaffney, where Duke Energy plans to build a 2,234 megawatt nuclear power plant.
The Idea of Nuclear Power? Just Peachy in This Part of South Carolina
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: · Broad River, Cherokee County, Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, coal, Dominion, Duke Energy, Gaffney, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, South Carolina
Duke Energy Feud Pits Conservationists Against Carolina Coal
July 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Duke Energy’s Lake Wylie Hydro Station, straddling York County, South Carolina and Mecklenburg, North Carolina, generates 60 megawatts of power, enough to power almost 10,000 homes. North Carolina passed an energy mandate last year requiring utilities like Duke to have 12.5 percent of its energy come from renewable sources and energy efficiency by 2021.
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Tags: · coal, conservation, Duke Energy, Green Energy, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, Progress Energy, renewable energy
