Essays on Southern Company

The laws meant that the Bowen plant of the Southern Company had to reduce the amount of sulphur dioxide released during the production of electricity. Prior to the enactment of the laws, Bowen’s sulphur dioxide emissions amounted to thirty tons an hour (Reinhardt 2). This amount translated to an annual emission of 262800 tons assuming 8760 hours in a year. Between 1995 and 2000 during the first phase of the implementation of the laws, the plant would only be allowed annual emissions of 254,580 tons of sulphur dioxide. This translates to hourly emissions of 29.06 tons (Reinhardt ...

The “new” moment in this article was the fact that the company needed to change working processes on its utilities to complain to the Clean Air Act. The Georgia Power’s Bowem plant looked like a “unique” object. The plant was quite big with its ability to “produce enough power to serve the residential, commercial, and industrial demands of 1 million people” (Harvard business school, 1993, p. 1). However, it was quite clean and had fewer emissions than smaller objects; it was a unique feature because of plant’s size and age. Amendments to the Clean Air Act were ...

Electric Transportation for personal, industrial, and public transportation is the largest investment that will prepare for the future financial stability of any utility company. Many utility companies across the globe have already begun the transition and many more will follow. Now is the time to get in on this new technology that is assuredly bound for complete integration into society during this century. The United States has been a leading nation in many technologies, now is the time to lead with electric transportation and the American utility companies can be that leader. Everyone knows that the fossil fuel industry ...