Peabody Energy to Purchase Power From Prairie State Plant
Posted on: Friday, 21 December 2007, 12:00 CST
Coal producer Peabody Energy has signed an agreement with wholesale power provider American Municipal Power Ohio to purchase 368MW of the power from the Prairie State energy campus being developed in southern Illinois.
The agreement includes the purchase of an additional 68MW, bringing AMP-Ohio's ownership to 23% of the facility's output.
Prairie State is a 1,600MW supercritical electricity generating station that is expected to be among the cleanest US coal-fueled power plants, providing electricity for more than 1.7 million families throughout the midwestern and eastern US.
Rick Bowen, president of generation and Btu conversion at Peabody, said: "Prairie State is leading the largest build out of clean coal plants in two decades and is important for delivering reliable baseload electricity at a time when demand is significantly higher than capacity."
Source: Datamonitor
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