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SD coal plant's demise may create opportunity for wind developers to salvage transmission line
Sioux Falls :: SD :: USA | 6 days ago
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A regional power-grid agency is trying to salvage the transmission line portion of a defunct coal plant project in northeastern South Dakota by encouraging wind developers to replace the lost megawatts. Big Stone II's plans had called for new and upgraded...
Tags: big stone, stone ii, Jim Newcomb, South Dakota, coal plant, transmission line, wind developers, Sioux Falls, Environment, Wind power, Wind farm, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, CU, Electric power transmission
Developers abandon plan for SD power plant
Sioux Falls :: SD :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Developers of a $1.6 billion electric power plant in northeastern South Dakota abandoned the project Monday, saying they were unable to recruit other investors after one of the principal utility backers pulled out. The Big Stone II plant, planned for...
Tags: Otter Tail Power Co., power plant, South Dakota, stone ii, big stone
Power Engineering: Otter Tail pulls out of coal-fired project
Lyman :: WY :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Otter Tail pulls out of coal-fired project 11 September 2009-- Otter Tail Power Co. Big Stone II, a 630 MW, $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant proposed for South Dakota...President and CEO Chuck MacFarlane said the economic recession combined with uncertainty...
Tags: big stone, Otter Tail Power Co, stone ii, power plant, Lyman
Lead utility drops out of Big Stone II
South Dakota :: SD :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The utility leading an effort to build a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant in South Dakota pulled out of the project Friday, citing the economic downturn and uncertainty about climate change legislation to regulate carbon emissions. The decision by...
Tags: Otter Tail Power Co., fired power, stone ii, big stone, power plant, billion coal, South Dakota
The Capital Journal, South Dakota: Facing EPA objections, board revises power plant’s permit
Pierre :: SD :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility The state Board of Minerals and Environment took hours of testimony Monday and agreed to revise an air-quality permit needed for the Big Stone II power plant project. Staff members at the Denver regional office of the federal Environmental Protection...
Tags: South Dakota, big stone
CBS 14 Sioux City (KMEG): EPA files objections to coal-fired power plant
Sioux Falls :: SD :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility According to Public Utilities Commission Chairman Dusty Johnson, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has filed objections to an air quality permit that was granted for the proposed coal-fired Big Stone II power plant. Johnson says the state Department...
Tags: Dusty Johnson, EPA, power plant, filed objections, stone ii, big stone
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Consultants say utilities lowballed cost estimates for Big Stone II plant
Saint Paul :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Big Stone II took a big hit Wednesday when independent experts said the utilities behind the proposed South Dakota power plant did their math wrong. In a report, sought by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Boston Pacific Co. concluded that...
Tags: big stone, stone ii, power plant
Tell us: Worst spring ever?
Saint Paul :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility OK, this has been downright depressing spring on the weather front, especially after such a long winter...Please share your memories of the worst spring ever, including the year, what made it so awful and your name, age and hometown...Feedback Terms...
Tags: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, stone ii, star tribune, proposed coal, big stone
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