EPA regulation shutter two Wisconsin coal-fired generators
Daily Caller – Michael Bastasch
– 10/24/2013
This is a bad week to work at a coal plant. Wisconsin’s Dairyland
Power Cooperative announced it will be closing two
coal-fired generating units, partly due to regulatory requirements that make it
harder to burn coal.
Dairyland will be
closing two coal-fired units at its Alma Station by the first quarter of 2015.
The coal units have a capacity of 136 megawatts and were built during the
Eisenhower administration. The Alma Station once boasted five coal-fired unit,
but the first three were shut down in 2011.
The plant’s
operators say the decision was not taken light.
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