About 15 miles north of Savannah and right above the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge in Rincon, Ga., stands Plant McIntosh, a robust 10-unit gas plant made up of eight 80-MW combustion turbine units, and two 660-MW combined cycle (CC) units. In 2022, it was listed as the state’s fourth-largest carbon dioxide emitter.
Under Georgia Power’s proposed nearly 10,000 megawatt (MW) grid expansion, it could be getting an eleventh unit, an addition that has received much scrutiny in the past week.
In last week’s final round of Georgia’s Public Service Commission (PSC) hearings on Georgia Power’s energy expansion, Sierra Club attorney Isabella Ariza called its expert witness to the stand…