Illinois coal-fired plant to restart Friday after forced outage: co-op

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Southern Illinois Power Cooperative’s 300-MW Lake of Egypt power plant is expected to resumecommercial operations Friday after a tube leak caused by coldweather forced the two-unit station offline several days ago, anexecutive said.“We lost a couple of days of burn, but it’s coming back hereFriday afternoon,” SIPC CEO Don Gulley told S&P Global PlattsThursday. “We took advantage of some higher [electricity market]prices” prior to the forced outage, “but we’re missing out today andtomorrow.”