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The biggest coal-fired power plant in western US may shut down this year
02/02/2017
The largest coal-fired power plant in the western part of the U.S, and
one of the major climate polluters in the nation, might shut down later
this year, striking a symbolic blow to the future of the coal industry.
The Navajo Generating Station (NGS), sited on the Navajo Reservation
close to Page, Arizona, is a 2,250-megawatt coal-fired power plant. It
supplies power for clients in Arizona, Nevada, and California, as well
as providing electricity for pumping Colorado River water for the
Central Arizona Project, providing 1.5 million acre feet of water
annually to central and southern Arizona.
USA Today announced that the plant is also the nation's third-biggest
emitter of greenhouse gasses of any electricity plant in the U.S.,
behind Southern Co's Scherer Power plant in Juliette, Georgia, ranked at
Number 1, and Number 2 ranked Southern Co's James H. Miller, Jr. Power
Plant in Quinton, Alabama.
