OUC exists for the benefit the City of Orlando's residents. Stanton was built where it was built to externalize it's pollution keeping utility rates for its citizen customers low and avoiding property value impacts to the city. It was deemed acceptable to externalize the impact on the unincorporated community of Bithlo. Since Stanton was built, the area within city limits around the old OUC Ivanhoe Plant has significantly gentrified.
Orange County began promoting development in the area in the 1980's. It widened Lake Underhill Road and extended Alafaya Trail south of SR50 toward FL528 (the Bee Line). Stanton was part of the development plan because OUC/Orlando chipped in on the infrastructure costs.
The lawsuit's 30,000 potentially affected people are not among OUC's 200k power customers. They live outside Orlando's city limits in Orange County. Their power is at market rate from Duke Energy. All those people live out near Stanton by design. The first of those developments, Huckleberry, was affordable and convenient because the road network was planned for further development, e.g. the 408.
Coal firing Stanton was always a bit of boondoggle. Orlando is a long way from any mineable coal face. People knew its location would exhaust into both of Florida's major water sheds. The site sits in the south end of the St. John's watershed and just north of the Florida Everglades headwaters in Deseret Ranch south of the Bee Line.
Orange County began promoting development in the area in the 1980's. It widened Lake Underhill Road and extended Alafaya Trail south of SR50 toward FL528 (the Bee Line). Stanton was part of the development plan because OUC/Orlando chipped in on the infrastructure costs.
The lawsuit's 30,000 potentially affected people are not among OUC's 200k power customers. They live outside Orlando's city limits in Orange County. Their power is at market rate from Duke Energy. All those people live out near Stanton by design. The first of those developments, Huckleberry, was affordable and convenient because the road network was planned for further development, e.g. the 408.
Coal firing Stanton was always a bit of boondoggle. Orlando is a long way from any mineable coal face. People knew its location would exhaust into both of Florida's major water sheds. The site sits in the south end of the St. John's watershed and just north of the Florida Everglades headwaters in Deseret Ranch south of the Bee Line.