Retired Units At Alabama Power’s Plant Gorgas Carefully Coming Down

By Gilbert Nicholson

From Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama.

For more than 50 years, and through 11 presidencies, Units 6 and 7 at Plant Gorgas in Walker County helped provide reliable electricity to Alabama Power customers.

Almost two years ago, on April 30, 2015, however, toughening federal environmental regulations forced the retirement of the two coal-fired units. Now the 135-foot structure that housed Gorgas 6 and 7 is being carefully disassembled.When the two units first came on line in 1953, they were a great leap forward from the ones that preceded them, said Plant Gorgas project engineer Forrest Waldo, who is managing the demolition project. “These bigger units had a capacity to generate 100 megawatts compared to 60 megawatts from the earlier units,” he said.

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