Tag: retirement of coal plants
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Trump Admin Orders Aging Colorado Coal Plant to Stay Open, Potentially Hurting Ratepayers
Policy Pivot Keeps a Nearly 50-Year-Old Coal Plant Running The Trump administration has intervened to keep an aging coal-fired power plant in Colorado online, ordering the facility to remain operational a day before its planned retirement. The Craig Generating Station Unit 1, a nearly five-decade-old plant, was scheduled to shut down as part of a…
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Emergency Order Keeps Aging Colorado Coal Plant Open, One Day Before Closure
Overview: An Unexpected Intervention Comes Just Before Closure The U.S. Department of Energy issued an emergency order late Tuesday to keep an aging Colorado coal plant operational, intervening just one day before the facility was slated to shut down. The order applies to Unit 1 of the Craig Station, a long-standing energy producer in northern…