The Riverside Station, Savannah’s first modern power plant, was built in 1912 to cater to the city’s 20th-century hunger for electricity. At the time of its completion, the plant was hailed as a modern marvel, one of the most impressive engineering undertakings in the American South that pushed Savannah into the electric age with grace and confidence. For the next 95 years, you’d be hard-pressed to find more magnificent and iconic power stations south of the Mason-Dixon Line. But by 2005, the need for an enormous power station to keep…
