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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 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
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
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
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
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
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Tags: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, stone ii, star tribune, proposed coal, big stone