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The ODEC (New Coal) Doctrine:Stand Firm in the Face of Economic Uncertainty

March 13, 2009

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
capandtrade, carbonrisk, coalfiredpowerplants, coalplantconstructioncosts, coalprices, markettransformation, odec, olddominionelectriccooperative

Old Dominion Electric Power Corporation's plan to build a 1,500MW supercritical pulverized coal-fired power facility in Dendron, Virginia comes with significant economic risk that can raise the "expected" cost of this facility by tens of billions of dollars over time. Costs...continued

Sunflower Co-op Should Rethink its High Priced Coal Commitment

February 9, 2009

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
capandtrade, carbonrisk, coalfiredpowerplants, coalplantconstructioncosts, holcombpowerplant, markettransformation, sunflowerelectricpowercorporation

Sunflower Electric Power Corporation's plan to take possession of 200MW of the 1400MW Holcomb supercritical coal-fired power facility in southwest Kansas comes with significant economic risk that will ultimately be borne by their rate-payers. These risks include higher construction, credit, and...continued

Baard Deserves a Lump of Coal in Their Stocking

December 16, 2008

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
baard, coalfiredpowerplants, coalplantconstructioncosts, coaltoliquids, markettransformation

Baard Energy's suggestion last week that the US Air Force should effectively ignore its own environmental regulations and commit to buy Baard's synthetic fuel as a way to help revive employment opportunities in Ohio should be dismissed outright. In fact,...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