Two weeks after that, Arizona’s biggest utility promised to retire its last coal plant seven years ahead of schedule. AdvertisementBut a handful of western utilities continue to operate coal plants with no plans to decommission them, defying economic and political headwinds, The Times found. Godby pointed to Dry Fork Station near Gillette, which opened in 2011 and may prove to be the last coal plant ever built in the West. For most of those coal plants, shutdown is likely a question of when, not if. “I don’t recall a customer calling us recently asking for 100% coal electricity,” Weisgall said.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 05, 2020 04:30 UTC