Do like Western NY State does, since they have all this excess capacity at the National Grid formerly Niagara Mohawk hydro-electric plant in Niagara Falls, they felt a need to needlessly burn more non renewables in order to generate more money from waste heat.
So they built a coal fired generating plant in Barker NY that is now already falling apart and AES plans to walk away from it, as well as a natural gas fueled generating plant in the Lockport CoGeneration plant.
Now that most all the local business has left Western NY, Buffalo and Lockport and Niagara Falls and the people with it there is no tax base, and no need for the power that the electro-chemical and auto business once needed.
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2010/11/11/aes-somerset-offline-but-not-over-tax.html
http://business-bankruptcies.com/cases/aes-somerset-llc
http://buffalo.twcnews.com/content/news/578761/aes-somerset-s-future-unclear/
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2007/12/04/utilities-operations-aes-somerset-idUKN0450033920071204
http://www.lansingstar.com/news-archive/8027-lansing-plant-operating-through-aes-chapter-11-
Most local grids in the USA can't support very many electric cars and nobody is telling you that. Not all of you can own one in other words.
Selling you self driving electric cars won't fix this mess or the foundation of the larger mess it is made upon.
Entered into service in 1984:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintigh_Generating_Station
Somerset Operating Co. LLC Generating Plant FULL MARKET VALUE 77,945,100
Somerset, NY 14012
AKA
7725 Lake Rd Barker, NY 14012 (716)795-9501
They misspeak about the reasons this is failing:
"The upstate plant was formerly operated by AES Somerset, which declared bankruptcy late last year amid marketplace difficulties brought on, in part, by the importation of government-subsidized power from Canada, as well as ever more costly "greenhouse gas" restrictions."
The reasons you are not solvent are the facts you have no courts and law enforcement in that area since the Police and others are busy harming children and doing other crimes to people.
Business won't bring people there to work and left as they told me more than once.
We won't work here are their words.
I see why now.
And they cited my case as one of the reasons why and as being iconic.
Being I did not even know much of it.
Until later.
See how they want to blame Canada for this?
Not Canada's fault.
Notice too how NY State and others offer how proud they are of the Robert Moses Hydro Plant in Niagara Falls and all the wonder this thing is as if they did this....
Germans built that plant and designed and made the turbines and generators.
Locals adjusted the whole mess once to get more efficiency and made it worse and not better.
They had to have people from Germany come over and make it right again.
With the caveat not to do that again lest you destroy the station.
Both of these plants (Barker and Niagara Falls) are in trouble overall.
