The Path to Clean Air
Starts With You
What are they?
Peaker Plants, or peaking power plants sound like a good thing. Power plants that only run when needed sign me up! Contrary to what you might think peaker plants are terrible for the environment. Many Peaker plants burn natural gas or oil for electricity, producing higher pollution levels than other forms of electricity production.
Why should you care?
Peaker plants produce gasses such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and particulate matter. Biodiversity is significantly damaged by peaker plants, high amounts of pollutants cause issues such as damaged plant life. And issues for all organisms. Not only can these pollutants hurt the environment they can also hurt human health. Causing issues such as cancer, asthma, birth defects, and much more.
Take Action
In order to prevent Peaker Plants from capitalizing on the peak hours of the day the best thing we can do is limit power usage during those times. For butte county, CA these hours are between 4 pm and 9 pm. To save your county from pollution avoid running major appliances during these times. To help stay on track you can print and stick the sticker linked below to your major appliances.
