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Moodys and S&P Need to Get Serious About Carbon Risk

January 26, 2009

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
AMP-ohio, capandinvest, capandtrade, carbonrisk, markettransformation, moodys, ratingsagencies, S&P

Following two important announcements in the past month, it seems clear that industry and government now both converging on the view that carbon risk will have a significant impact on the economics of building new coal fired power plants.  In December, the...continued

AMP-Ohio's New Coal Plant is a Bad Bond Bet**

December 9, 2008

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
AMP-ohio, carbonrisk, coalfiredpowerplants, markettransformation

AMP-Ohio has recently released a revised feasibility study, prepared by RW Beck, for the construction of a new 960MW coal-fired power plant in Meigs County, Ohio. This is the third time in the past 18 months RW Beck has been...continued

AMP-Ohio's 960MW Coal-Fired Power Plant: A $3bln Idea with $23bln in Potential Cost Over-runs to the Consumer

September 2, 2008

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
AMP-ohio, carbonrisk, clevelandpublicpower, coalfiredpowerplants, coalplantconstructioncosts, markettransformation

A friend of a friend's father-in-law heard that officials in his city have been receiving this letter to get them to commit to a 50 year contract for power from AMP-Ohio's proposed 960MW Coal-Fired power plant and I thought I should...continued