Montana Coal Plant Aborted for Natural Gas and Wind Alternatives. By Jan Falstad, Billings Gazette, February 2, 2009. "Blaming regulatory uncertainty and environmental lawsuits, developers of the Highwood Generating Station near Great Falls are halting work on the planned coal-fired generating plant for now and are going to build one powered by natural gas with wind turbines for additional power. In a unanimous vote Friday, board members of four south-central Montana cooperatives decided to switch directions in order to get a 120-megawat natural-gas-fired plant up and operating by 2011 to provide electricity for members. Lawsuits and regulatory delays over coal have delayed the project too long, said Tim Gregori, chief executive of Southern Montana Electric and Transmission Cooperative in Billings, the parent organization formed to provide wholesale electricity to its member co-ops... Gregori said [the natural gas plant] will cost about $206 million and... 'We have $12 million to build six megawatts of wind.'"
2009-02-04
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