Monroe Power Plant 2024

Ever wonder where our electricity comes from? Electricity is critical to so many aspects of our life. Responsible use of electricity includes efficient and thrifty considerations. Join your fellow scouts as we visit one of the largest coal fired power plants in North America. We will learn how the power plant converts coal into heat, heat into steam and steam into electricity. This is an extra special trip as Unit 3 is in an outage and much of the equipment including the boiler and steam turbine will be disassembled for maintenance and repair. As an added bonus, the scouts will work on the Energy Merit Badge.