Electricity Price Increases

[Torvy]

Being in a CO-OP has also helped mitigate a big increase for us as well. People just a few miles away on AEP have seen 40-50% increases in just the last year. Everyone thought a new natural gas power plant going in was going to lower electricity prices. Not so much when all that power is being sent to the East coast.

Good point. The system in the US is too centralized, in one sense. We need a series of small grids that can be manually connected in an emergency, but otherwise operate independently. Power generation needs to happen closer to where it ia used. Cities use most of it, but they use their electoral power to push generation out to rural areas. Some people have no idea how food shows up on their tables.

 

[DarkBlack]

Not so much when all that power is being sent to the East coast.

Where are you at? You don’t have anything under your profile

 

[walhondingMF]

Where are you at? You don’t have anything under your profile

In southeast Ohio. The natural gas boom has led to several power plants being constructed in this part of the state.

 

[MossRoad]

In southeast Ohio. The natural gas boom has led to several power plants being constructed in this part of the state.

Someone built a natural gas plant west of here several years ago and then sold it to two co-ops, neither of which serve our area.

Then Amazon built two data centers right next to it, as well as GM battery plant, so you have to wonder if they're selling to them since they're right across the road from each other.

 

[BravoXray]

Then Amazon built two data centers right next to it, as well as GM battery plant, so you have to wonder if they're selling to them since they're right across the road from each other.

I see the county commissioners vetoed zoning for a third data center. Meeting lasted from 6:00PM until 3:00AM, lots of pissed off neighbors railing against it.

 

[Torvy]

I see the county commissioners vetoed zoning for a third data center. Meeting lasted from 6:00PM until 3:00AM, lots of pissed off neighbors railing against it.

If it's like the city we lived in near FtW, they will let it sit for a month or two and bring it back up when fewer people are there. Rinse and repeat until they get their way.

 

[lman]

If it's like the city we lived in near FtW, they will let it sit for a month or two and bring it back up when fewer people are there. Rinse and repeat until they get their way.

I believe in this case they're good for 6 months.

 

[Torvy]

That's a little better. It should be at least 3 years before they can try again.

 

[walhondingMF]

I think the corporations building the data centers should be responsible for their own power production. They have the money to do it but would rather buy cheap, rural land buy power plants and expect us to subsidize them.

 

[MossRoad]

I see the county commissioners vetoed zoning for a third data center. Meeting lasted from 6:00PM until 3:00AM, lots of pissed off neighbors railing against it.

Yeah. Have you been out to the two data centers and the battery plant lately? WOW! HUGE!!!!!

I guess this third one was supposed to go north of the Chicago Trail nearer to the Hudson Lake neighborhoods.

Wife and I went out there on a Sunday night and drove what's left of the county dirt roads and I've never seen such a large installation other than US steel over in NW Indiana.

So, there's $11B in data and $4B in battery plant already. Data 3 would be another $13B.

I won't go into the arguments for and against it in this thread, as it's highly political here in Indiana.