Another coal plant bites the dust

We have a lot of fun with online maps here at EcoGeek. We like watching clean-tech companies pop up on the radar and organizing vacations with green social maps. Another very fun map to watch, thanks to Earth2Tech, shows you when coal plants go offline.

There was a recent addition to the growing mass of pins -- Georgia Power is looking to convert an Albany coal-fired power plant to a wood biomass plant. The plant is marked with a special green pin to show that it is switching to renewable.

My favorite part of the news blip is that the biomass plant will actually be cheaper to run, as well as cutting emissions and using a renewable source of fuel. It’s great to see businesses realize that renewable energy is quickly becoming less expensive to provide, and I hope that fact will help this map be covered in pins and soon.

Another couple of pins will be going up within the next four years, as a two Xcel Energy plants in Colorado are shut down and replaced by natural gas and solar.

Via Earth2Tech