Georgia Power reduces NOx in Georgia

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Southern Company Services Incorporated (NYSE: SO) (Birmingham, Alabama), a subsidiary of The Southern Company (Atlanta, Georgia), is installing selective catalytic reduction (SCR) units on regulated utility sister company Georgia Power Company's (Atlanta, Georgia) Wansley Power Station units 1 and 2 in Roopville, Georgia. Each unit is rated at 952-megawatts (MW).

Georgia Power is having Southern Company Services install the SCR units on two (2) ABB/CE coal tangential-fired supercritical dry bottom boilers (6.46MM lb/hr, 3,625psig @ 1000F) to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions to meet state and federal regulations during a 5+ week maintenance outage. Unit 1 is in the process of being tied in now and Unit 2 will be tied in during an outage in January 2003.

Georgia Power was founded in 1883 and services over 1.9 million customers. Georgia Power with its generating capacity of over 15,000 MW is the largest of the Southern Company's subsidiaries.