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Chesapeake

OPERATOR: Virginia Electric & Power Co

LOCATION: Chesapeake City County, VA

CONNECTION SUMMARY: This power plant purchases coal directly from Central Appalachian strip mines. Of the Appalachian communities featured on this site, the one most closely connected to this power plant is Kayford Mountain, West Virginia.

INTERACTIVE MAP: Click any of the mine icons in the map below to get a close-up view of where your power comes from - each mine symbol represents a connection to mountaintop removal for Chesapeake and for electricity consumers connected to Virginia Electric & Power Co. Direct suppliers of strip mined coal from Central Appalachia are shown in red. See below for the legend and navigation hints.



View this plant's connection in Google Earth

LEGEND:

Chesapeake, operated by Virginia Electric & Power Co

Mountaintop removal mines that are connected to your power grid

NAVIGATION HINTS:

The controls on the top left of the map allow you to zoom in closer to the ground or back out to get a broader perspective. Even easier, though, is to navigate with the "hand" tool. Clicking and dragging on the map will move the map in the same direction, double-clicking on a point will center the map on that point and zoom you in a little closer, and double clicking with the right mouse button (ctrl-click for macintosh users) to center on a point and zoom out.




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