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As the government looked to the future, it create two large wind farms, utilizing windmills to generate electricity in Foxhey, which was dislocated from the Arco power Grid, and Presdale, which was remote when compared to the rest of the Arcer population. As well, the expected direction from the 2030 Memo on Energy Policy is likely to include provisions for Hydroelectric power, focusing on building hydroelectric dams in Easthampton and the Northumbraeland Mountains. Northlea Governorate was approached with a similar strategy in the 1990s, but the idea was shelved due to concerns about creating man-made lakes and destroying/displacing Arcer farmers in the Arcer Heartland due to its Lowland terrain. | As the government looked to the future, it create two large wind farms, utilizing windmills to generate electricity in Foxhey, which was dislocated from the Arco power Grid, and Presdale, which was remote when compared to the rest of the Arcer population. As well, the expected direction from the 2030 Memo on Energy Policy is likely to include provisions for Hydroelectric power, focusing on building hydroelectric dams in Easthampton and the Northumbraeland Mountains. Northlea Governorate was approached with a similar strategy in the 1990s, but the idea was shelved due to concerns about creating man-made lakes and destroying/displacing Arcer farmers in the Arcer Heartland due to its Lowland terrain. | ||
== Energy Sources == | == Energy Sources == | ||
=== Coal === | === Coal === | ||
Easthampton and Aileach | [[File:Easthampton Coal Mining.png|thumb|Coal mining in Easthampton, Arcerion. Clockwise from top left; A Site Chief discusses mining operations with two executives from the Arcerion Mining Company; Miners in one of the Aileach Mountains mine for coal; A coal quarry in Moorden Governorate. |250x250px]]Coal is the largest producer of energy in Arcerion and one of its largest exports, with customers and Arcer mining companies spread across the globe. Arcer mining interests are as old as the colony itself, with the majority of industrial-scale mining beginning with the establishment of Easthampton, Moorden governorate in 1834. Easthampton would quickly grow to become a large mining town, mainly centered around the mining operations in the Aileach Mountain ranges. This industrial scale mining is well represented within the Arcer energy infrastructure, with six separate coal power plants in mainland Arcerion under the jurisdiction of the federal government. There is also a significant number of smaller powerplants administered and controlled by the individual governorates and municipalities of Arcerion. | ||
Coal has been on a steady decline in the Arcerion energy sphere since the discovery of the [[Albion Sea Gas Fields]] in 1977. During the oil and gas boom of the 1980s and 1990s coal dropped over a quarter (28%) in the Arcer energy sector, and jobs declined as well due to a migration to Howland governorate of technically skilled specialists and their families to pursue gas field employment for higher pay. However coal has remained resilient due to its large share of exports in Arcerion, and in conjunction with the [[Arco National Railway Service]], which brings coal to importers in Southwest and Southeast Crona along the Western line as far as [[Alstin]]'s Betlands, and as far North as the Mid-Atrassic States controlled by [[Kiravia]]. | |||
=== Oil === | === Oil === | ||
Howland Governorate | Howland Governorate | ||
[[File:Albion Sea LNG Arcerion.png|thumb|Top: deep-sea liquid natural gas drilling platforms from the Arcerion Oil and Gas Company (AOGC) in the Albion Sea; Bottom: A liquid natural gas tanker docks in Port Northford to receive a shipment of natural gas bound for Alshar, 2019. ]] | [[File:Albion Sea LNG Arcerion.png|thumb|Top: deep-sea liquid natural gas drilling platforms from the Arcerion Oil and Gas Company (AOGC) in the Albion Sea; Bottom: A liquid natural gas tanker docks in Port Northford to receive a shipment of natural gas bound for Alshar, 2019. |327x327px]] | ||
=== Natural Gas === | === Natural Gas === | ||
Howland Governorate | Howland Governorate | ||