Minnesota Power shutting down two more coal-fired power plants
-
7 years ago (2016-10-21)
-
David Flin
Africa
306
Asia
860
Australasia
51
Biomass
8
Climate change
20
Coal
282
Cogeneration
1
Concentrating solar
5
Cyber security
8
Decarbonisation
1
Decentralised energy
5
Demand side management
2
Demand side response
2
Digitalisation
10
Distributed energy
10
Distribution
113
Electric vehicles EVs
4
Emissions
61
Energy management
1
Equipment
2
Europe
1069
Gas
379
Gas engine plant
62
Gas fuel
2
Horizon
2
Hydroelectric
17
Hydrogen
56
Hydropower
116
Latin America
77
Maintenance
3
Marine
1
Metering
2
microgrid
5
Middle East
317
North America
1004
Nuclear
643
Offshore wind
119
Oil
18
Operations
4
Policy
8
Regulations
3
Renewables
758
smart grid
2
Solar
250
Storage
41
substation
8
Tepco
2
Tidal
2
Toshiba
4
Transmission
181
US Senate Washington
4
Wind
241
Minnesota Power has announced that it will shut down two more coal-fired power units, Boswell 1 and 2, in Cohasset, Minnesota, USA, four years earlier that state order. The utility said it will idle the 1960-vintage units by the end of 2018 as it moves towards more natural gas and renewable energy from solar and wind. The change is part of Minnesota Power’s long-term Energy Forward focus, helping it to comply with state regulations to get more energy from renewable sources.
The move was also pushed by the state’s Public Utilities Commission, which in June had instructed Minnesota Power to shut Boswell 1 and 2 down no later than 2022.
Minnesota Power’s goal is to eventually produce about one-third of its electricity from natural gas, one-third from renewable sources, and one-third from coal.
Minnesota Power said that it had no plans to shut down or repower Boswell units 3 and 4, its largest coal-fired units at 355 MW and 585 MW respectively.