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Old 01-15-2020, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Riley Co
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Sunflower Electric Power Corp. on Wednesday abandoned its proposed coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas after nearly 15 years of pushing for the project, handing a big victory to environmentalists who opposed the plan from the beginning.

https://www.wibw.com/content/news/Su...567012381.html
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Old 01-15-2020, 04:03 PM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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Sunflower Electric Power Corp. on Wednesday abandoned its proposed coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas after nearly 15 years of pushing for the project, handing a big victory to environmentalists who opposed the plan from beginning.

https://www.wibw.com/content/news/Su...567012381.html
They were still stupid enough to keep fighting to build it for years, however. Now renewables, storage, and natural gas are far cheaper. Most utilities are only building renewable projects due to rapidly declining costs and projecting out those costs for commercial and residential ratepayers for many decades.
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Old 01-16-2020, 05:12 PM
 
Location: Minnysoda
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They were still stupid enough to keep fighting to build it for years, however. Now renewables, storage, and natural gas are far cheaper. Most utilities are only building renewable projects due to rapidly declining costs and projecting out those costs for commercial and residential ratepayers for many decades.
In the meantime they are building some the most modern recip gas plants in the country....
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Old 01-16-2020, 06:14 PM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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In the meantime they are building some the most modern recip gas plants in the country....
That has also occurred due to changes in technology and scalability:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37972
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Old 01-17-2020, 06:25 AM
 
Location: Minnysoda
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That has also occurred due to changes in technology and scalability:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37972
As I review drawings for the next one on our to do list..................
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