EKPC offers plan to keep Cooper station burning CAPP coal

摘要

East Kentucky Power Cooperative will seek state approval in August for an environmental upgrade at 116-MW Unit 1 of its Cooper coal-fired power plant to prevent the unit's retirement and enable the entire baseload facility to meet federal air quality rules, the co-op said Thursday. A scrubber installed last year on Cooper's other coal unit, 225-MW Unit 2, to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions has sufficient capacity to also accommodate flue gases from Unit 1, the generation and transmission co-op has concluded.