Missouri muni cuts coal stocks by halting deliveries; likely to resume end-Apr

摘要

Saddled with a nearly triple-digit coalinventory just three months ago, Sikeston, Missouri, found a quickway to trim its stockpiles to target levels — it stopped takingrail deliveries.“The way we pulled it down is we quit scheduling any trainsin,” Rick Landers, who manages a 235-MW power plant for theSikeston Board of Municipal Utilities, said in a Thursday interview.“We ran two trains in the first week of January, then we sort ofparked them.”