It may not just affect the closing power plants. AEP also gets coal from Appalachia and has a fleet of coal barges and trains operating to deliver this to the plants.
wonder how it will affect them.
I’ve also heard that AEP was planning to close some coal plants in Texas that burn low sulfur Wyoming coal and local Lignite.
Glad I retired from AEP years ago, and others I worked with are bailing out.
Announced 2016 retirements include Northeastern Station, Unit 4, in Oklahoma, and Welsh, Unit 2, in Texas.
EP said in 2011 it planned to close 14 plants in the years to come, including the six slated to cease generation by June, Ridout said the utility has made plans to “get rid of as much coal as possible” in the retiring plants’ stockpiles.