Beyond Class 2

For my second beyond class activity I attended the Dominion Power Presentation for the Honors Program. The Presentation was given by Mr. Green, who attended Howard University. He talked about a lot of interesting things that I did not know. Dominion Power is the largest power company on the East Coast. They have coal, oily, hydro and two nuclear power plants. The two nuclear power plants are located in North Anna and Surrey. He talked about how Dominion is highly involved in making their means of power very environmentally safe. He mentioned that the facility in Chester has state of the art pollution control equipment.

Mr.Green mentioned that everything in todays society requires more electricity to operate. He talked about how Dominion is always expanding and growing and finding new and safer ways to produce power. For instance, they are thinking about putting a third nuclear reactor in North Anna to compensate for the high demand of energy and power. Dominion is in the process of studying how solar and wind can be better incorporated into means of power. He mentioned that underground power lines are being looked into, but that they are very expensive and will take time to install.

He mentioned that Dominion is more than just power plants. They have seminars that inform people of where to plant slow growing trees and how to trim them properly. They also have offices on the nuclear power plants to make sure that everything is functioning properly. they have a team of meteorologist who look at weather patterns to know how many units they need to operate for the day. I thought that the presentation was very informative and very interesting. I learned a lot of things that I did not know.