Couch Plant Demolition from Entergy on Vimeo.

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Entergy, the state’s largest electric utility, yesterday used explosives to destroy the major parts of its closed Couch Plant near Stamps, which dated to 1943 and was designed to burn fuel oil or gas at two generating units. Named for power company founder Harvey Couch, it’s been out of commission since 2013.

The company is modernizing its production, with new solar and gas-fired generating facilities and plans to take coal-burning plants out of commission (if Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, a defender of carbon pollution, can’t stop it.)

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Anyway, everybody loves some good explosion footage.