2014 – Another Year of Unmet Promises for the Prairie State Energy Campus (pdf) By David Schlissel, Director of Resource Planning Analysis, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
Memo: Analysis of Paducah Power System’s Recent and Future Costs of Power from the Prairie State Energy Campus By David Schlissel, IEEFA Director of Resource Planning Analysis
Report- The Prairie State Coal Plant: The Reality vs. the Promise (pdf).
Executives at Paducah Power System say they will stay the course on their commitment to Prairie State Energy Campus, the costly and poorly performing coal-fired power plant. In an article in this morning’s Paducah Sun, David Zoeller quotes PPS officials as being largely unmoved by worries that the plant is a drain on the economic […]
David Zoeller of the Paducah Sun reported this weekend that new Paducah Power System general manager Gary Zheng is seeking buyers for the system’s excess power. “Paducah Power’s rates are the highest in the state due mainly to the past poor performance of the Prairie State Energy Campus, the utility’s chief supplier of power, and […]
Fitch Ratings takes on critics of the Prairie State Energy Campus in a March 9 report that insists the plant has “favorable long-term fundamentals” that will ultimately serve the many struggling and deeply indebted communities that own a stake in it. The report by the ratings agency is chronicled in a piece by SNL’s Matthew […]
2014 – Another Year of Unmet Promises for the Prairie State Energy Campus (pdf) By David Schlissel, Director of Resource Planning Analysis, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
The Louisville Courier-Journal is out this morning with an editorial that asks whether the scores of towns trapped in long-term high-priced commitments to Prairie State Energy Campus were duped. The editorial, which follows an expose on Sunday by reporter Jim Bruggers, notes that Prairie State was largely a concoction of Peabody Energy, which built the […]