Tag Archives: Kansas Energy
Sunflower Avoiding 5% Solution on Coal
Correspondence produced as a result of a Kansas Open Records Act indicate Sunflower officials helped KDHE write an explanation why the 5 percent coal provision could be sidestepped. Continue reading
New Holcomb Coal Plant Makes No Sense
Colorado will get the power, but the problems will remain with Kansas: Risky capital debt for the 60-year life of the plant, depletion of Kansas’ finite ground water, and massive amounts of dirty air and pollution across Kansas’ skies for the next three or more generations. Continue reading
Group Urges Extra Coal Meetings
The Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy, based in Lawrence, has asked for five hearings on Sunflower Electric’s request for a permit to build an 895-megawatt coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas. That many hearings, said GPACE director Scott Allegrucci, would give all Kansans the opportunity to learn more about the plant and give them the chance to offer comments. Continue reading
Who Really Owns the Coal Plant?
GPACE has offered a number of criticisms and questions regarding the proposed Sunflower Electric coal‐fired power plant project now being reviewed for an air quality permit by KDHE and If you ever wondered why we are asking these (still unanswered) questions, take a look at this page from the Tri‐State Generation and Transmission Association 2008 Annual Report. Tri‐State is the Colorado utility that plans to finance and own the Holcomb coal plant, and that will own and use at least 80% of the electricity the plant would produce. Continue reading
