EKPC to Deactivate Coal Plant
East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC), a Kentucky generation and transmission cooperative, has announced its plans to deactivate one of its coal plants over the next year. None of the plant’s four coal-fired units currently meets the requirements imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule, and the changes required to bring them into compliance are not economically justified. The plant, whose units began operating between 1954 and 1960, is EKPC’s oldest. Click here for more.