Consultant urges Indiana regulators to 'modify or revoke' Edwardsport certificate

摘要

An energy consultant retained by a group that opposes Duke EnergyIndiana LLC's 618-MW Edwardsport integrated gasification combinedcycle,or IGCC, plant argues the facility "has been and continues to bean economic catastrophe" for the utility's customers, and stateregulators should "modify or revoke" the certificate that authorized itsconstruction."By any reasonable measure such as heat rate, capacity factor,equivalent forced outage rate and availability on syngas,Edwardsport's operating performance to date has been significantlyworse than the company repeatedly told the [Indiana UtilityRegulatory Commission, or IURC] it would be," consultant DavidSchlissel said in testimony recently submitted to the commission onbehalf of Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana Inc., or CAC, as part ofannual cost recovery proceedings for the plant.