OVEC to invest $820 million in environmental improvements at two coal-fired power plants

摘要

Two old coal-fired power plants in the Ohio Valley will be retrofitted with sulfur dioxide-removing scrubbers by the end of the decade under an $820 million air pollution control plan unveiled late last week by Ohio Valley Electric Corp. and its Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corp. subsidiary. One of the region's leading environmentalists was not impressed, however, with OVEC's planned expenditure at the 1,075-MW Kyger Creek and 1,290-MW Clifty Creek baseload plants in Cheshire, Ohio, and Madison, Indiana, respectively. Kyger Creek's scrubber is targeted for commercial operation in 2009, Clifty Creek's in 2010.