Dive Brief:
- Two investor-owned utilities, Alliant Energy and WEC Energy
Group, announced plans on Thursday to delay their respective coal plant
retirement plans for their Wisconsin subsidiaries by at least a year.
- Alliant Energy intends to retire
its Edgewater Generating Station by June 2025, and all of its Columbia
Energy Center units by June 2026, delaying both plants by at least 18
months. WEC Energy Group’s Wisconsin subsidiary extended the operation
of two units at its Oak Creek site by a year and for two other units by
about 18 months, until late 2025, citing tight energy supply conditions
in the Midwest power market.
- The announcement follows reports that the Midcontinent Independent System Operator will face capacity shortfalls beginning this summer in its northern and central regions. MISO noted it “will be increasingly reliant on emergency or non-firm resources” to ensure service reliability in those regions as capacity shortfalls are expected to continue.
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