TITLE

Coal Project Owners Agree to Carbon Offsets to Obtain Transmission Line

PUB. DATE
October 2007
SOURCE
Power Engineering;Oct2007, Vol. 11 Issue 10, p14
SOURCE TYPE
Trade Publication
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The article concerns the agreement of seven regional utilities building a 630 megawatt coal-fired unit at a site in South Dakota to a plan that would offset carbon dioxide emissions from half of the power the unit would create. The coal project owners have agreed to the carbon offset plan in order to obtain permission from Minnesota regulators to upgrade a transmission line to carry power from the plant to Minnesota customers. The settlement calls for a multi-faceted program consisting of up to six components to offset half the estimated 4.7 million tons of carbon dioxide that will be produced annually by the Big Stone II power plant project.
ACCESSION #
27200417

Tags: CONTRACTS;  CARBON dioxide mitigation;  COAL-fired power plants;  ELECTRIC lines

 

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