Great River Energy officials said low prices in the regional energy market has already forced the 50-year-old station to operate on a limited basis. Great River Energy supplies power to 28 rural utility cooperatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin. It continues to operate the Coal Creek station, northeast of Stanton, and the Spiritwood station, near Jamestown. The Stanton plant, which began generating power in 1966, stopped burning North Dakota lignite coal more than a decade ago. FARGO, N.D. (AP) " Officials with a North Dakota electric power cooperative said Friday that the group's Stanton power plant has become too costly to operate and will shut down within the next 12 months.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 15, 2016 21:00 UTC