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"It is easy to lose sight of the transformative change under way in the U.S.
electric sector in the daily news cycle, but that change is most definitely
occurring, and more quickly than many realize.
DTE Energy, a large electric and gas utility in Michigan, said last week that
it would close the last two units at its massive Monroe coal-fired power plant
in 2032.
The four-unit Monroe facility has a net summer generating capacity of 3,062
megawatts (MW), which makes it the third-largest operating coal plant in the
U.S., behind Georgia Power’s 3,200MW Bowen plant and Duke’s 3,132MW Gibson
plant. The announcement, part of a settlement agreement regarding the company’s
integrated resource plan now pending before the Michigan Public Service
Commission, is particularly noteworthy because it was just eight months ago
that DTE first proposed moving the closure date up to 2035; it had previously
been 2040.
Going slightly further back, it was only in 2021 that DTE first mentioned
closing any of the four Monroe units before 2040, and it was just in 2017 when
the utility announced any closure plans at all for the facility.
In the utility world, that is lightning fast.
The benefits of closing are clear, as DTE acknowledged in its announcement,
noting that the early closure of Monroe coupled with the tax credit provisions
in the Inflation Reduction Act would cut its transition costs by $2.5 billion.
Left unsaid by DTE, but another major benefit, the early closure will remove
the third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the U.S. electric grid.
The plant emitted 16.29 million tons of CO2 in 2022, behind only Southern’s
James Miller plant in Alabama and Ameren’s Labadie plant in Missouri."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
