Sierra Club: As GenOn Retires Final Coal Burning Unit at Avon Lake, Ohio's Clean-Energy Manufacturing Future Emerges
June 11, 2021
June 11, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 11 -- The Sierra Club issued the following statement on June 10, 2021:
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Yesterday, GenOn announced the company will retire the final 680 megawatt unit at the Avon Lake coal plant by September 15, 2021.
The Avon Lake lake plant was previously announced for retirement in 2012. GenOn would later decide it would instead retire the smaller and older Unit 7 (86 megawatts) and make investments in the larger Unit 9 (680 megawatts) and cont . . .
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Yesterday, GenOn announced the company will retire the final 680 megawatt unit at the Avon Lake coal plant by September 15, 2021.
The Avon Lake lake plant was previously announced for retirement in 2012. GenOn would later decide it would instead retire the smaller and older Unit 7 (86 megawatts) and make investments in the larger Unit 9 (680 megawatts) and cont . . .