Kentucky Utility Plans to Retire Big Sandy Unit 2 in 2015, an Industrial Info News Alert
(firmenpresse) - SUGAR LAND, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 01/15/13 -- Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Kentucky Power Company (Frankfort, Kentucky) announced plans to retire Unit 2 of its Big Sandy Power Station, located in Louisa, Kentucky, in 2015. The decision, announced last month, completed a year-long cycle where the utility, a unit of (NYSE:AEP) (Columbus, Ohio), first said it would spend $940 million to install a flue gas desulphurization system to lower sulfur dioxide emissions at the 816-megawatt unit. But that plan was withdrawn in mid-2012 in part because installing scrubbers would drive up electric rates by about 31%.
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