Alabama Power

Upgrading Coal Plant Damper Drives

High maintenance and scarcity of parts justified the cost for Alabama Power. By Neal R. Hood and Kristi Simmons, Alabama Power Plant engineers at Alabama Power recently decided to upgrade damper drives for each of two...

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Boaz man hurt in Mountainboro wreck

Published November 26, 2009 A Boaz man is recovering after losing control of his Camaro and slamming into a culvert and utility pole in the Mountainboro community on Monday. David M. Pitts, 34, of 861 Mizell Circle, Boaz, was...

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Business committee for the arts entertains honorees

A crowd filled the lobby of the ServisFirst Bank on Commerce Street on a recent Wednesday night. Though not open for financial transactions, the bank was open for an after-hours celebration honoring a Montgomery visitor who had...

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Birmingham Economic Summit starts Wednesday evening

The Birmingham Economic Summit will give the business community the opportunity to learn, share and collaborate this week. The City of Birmingham will hold its second annual conference starting Wednesday evening with sessions...

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Safe CO2 Storage For Greener Power Generation

Washington DC (SPX) Nov 12, 2009 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to fund research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering on technologies that would help reduce...

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Ida weakens to depression, Gulf oil patch recovers

MOBILE, Ala. (Reuters) - Ida dwindled to a tropical depression on Tuesday after crawling ashore in Alabama from the Gulf of Mexico, and oil operations in the Gulf were returning to normal after being widely disrupted by the storm.

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Proposed Oyster Ban Unites Local Businesses to Fight Economic Threat

FDA's proposal would require all oysters sold between May and October undergo post-harvest processing which involves individual quick freezing with frozen storage, high hydrostatic pressure, mile heat and low dose gamma...

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William Patrick Lay

Alabama, Etowah County, Attalla William Patrick Lay (1853-1940), founder of Alabama Power Company, built his first hydroelectric plant on Big Wills Creek about 2 miles east on Simmons Lane. Lay purchased the Old Wesson Mill in...

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$30.6M in Stimulus Funds Give US Hydroelectric Projects a New Spark

Up to $30.6 million in economic stimulus funds will be used to finance seven hydroelectric projects nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The additional funding means Voith Hydro, a manufacturer of...

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Alabama Power to get $6M grant

The United States Department of Energy announced that Alabama Power Co. will receive a $6 million federal grant to upgrade power generating. The money will be used to improve four units and three hydroelectric projects on the...

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