Ala. utility plans to close coal-fired plant, citing US EPA coal ash rule

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PowerSouth Energy Cooperative will retire its coal-fired Charles R. Lowmanplant due to federal coal ash regulations, the utility’s CEO said.The 556-MW plant’s three units will be replaced with natural gas-firedgeneration, CEO Gary Smith told employees in a Dec. 31, 2018, message.Smith cited the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Coal CombustionResiduals, or CCR, rule as the driving force behind the move.PowerSouth Energy representatives did not immediately respond torequests for additional comment on Jan. 31. The generation and transmissioncooperative supplies wholesale electricity to 16 distribution cooperativesand four municipal utilities in Alabama and the Florida panhandle.