Progress Energy is shutting down one of its older coal-fired power plants six years early as new electricity generating stations burning cleaner natural gas open.

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The Raleigh-based utility will retire its W.H. Weatherspoon plant near Lumberton this fall, after this summer's seasonal peak of electricity demand. Progress Energy spokesman Scott Sutton says the lower price of natural gas compared to coal has changed the economic arguments for keeping the Lumberton plant open.