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2.2-GW Coal-Fired Behemoth Could Permanently Close This Week
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The 2,250-MW coal-fired Navajo Generating Station (NGS) in Arizona will permanently close likely this week, ending a long and bitter fight to keep the plant and its affiliated coal mine open.
The plant’s utility owners—Salt River Project (SRP), Arizona Public Service Co., Tucson Electric Power Co., and NV Energy—in February 2017 voted to shut down the plant located on tribal land near Page along the border with Utah, citing “rapidly changing economics of the energy industry,” which has seen natural gas prices sink to record lows.
SRP, the plant’s majority owner, told POWER in an email on Nov. 12 that operations at the plant are now expected to end within the next week, once fuel on site has been exhausted. “The best estimate now is for all units to be shut down permanently on Nov. 15—but that could change,” a spokesperson said.
After the project’s utility owners voted to close the plant in 2017, coal mining giant Peabody Energy, the Department of Interior (whose Bureau of Reclamation is a participant in the project), and the Navajo Nation launched concerted attempts to find an outside buyer to keep running the plant.…
Coal-Fired Generation Projected to Surpass Natural Gas This Winter
Coal, the unchallenged leader in U.S. power generation for most of the past century, may regain its place at the top of the energy mix hierarchy this winter, according to projections released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The EIA’s November Short-Term Energy Outlook suggests that prices for natural gas delivered to the power sector will continue rising, resulting in gas-fired generation reaching a seasonal peak of nearly $ 31/MWh in February 2017. That’s a far cry from the low recorded in March 2016 of about $ 16/MWh.
Increased gas prices would be a favorable development for the coal power sector. The national average price for power generated by coal has been between $ 21/MWh and $ 23/MWh for the past couple of years, making it the more economical choice.
As recently as 2010, coal supplied nearly twice the electricity generated from gas. However, falling gas prices as a result of the shale boom and coal plants closing due to more stringent environmental regulations have changed the landscape substantially.…