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The Dirtiest of the Dirty Coal Power Plants
Within the top 10 for CO2 emissions rate, top spot goes to Westar Energy’s 1,857-megawatt Jeffrey Energy Center, a plant burning Powder River Basin coal north of Topeka, Kansas, that powered out 1,086 kilograms of CO2 per megawatt-hour. Continue reading
Retrofitting Power Plants Studied
Staff with the Kansas Corporation Commission have filed a petition to start investigating whether it made more sense to close down large, aging power plants to build new ones or to spend billions retrofitting the plants to meet pending environmental regulations. Continue reading
Kansas’ Potential for Wind Energy is Getting Lost in the Wind
Kansas has the second-best wind potential in the country, but advocates are increasingly concerned that the state is blowing a key reform that would make it easier for individuals, businesses and communities to produce wind power. Continue reading
Coal power costs a pocketbook issue
KANSAS HAS CHIPS in the energy bill being debated in Congress. If the law passed imposes costs on carbon emissions, the cost of generating power at the Jeffrey Energy Center near St. Marys, Westar North’s main plant, will rise. Kansans will pay more for power every month as a consequence. Continue reading
