Sierra Club: Opaque Coal Creek Sale May Leave Minnesotans Stuck With More Expensive Coal
July 01, 2021
July 01, 2021
MAPLE GROVE, Minnesota, July 1 (TNSOps) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on June 30, 2021:
Earlier today, Great River Energy (GRE) announced that the utility would be selling its Coal Creek Station power plant to Rainbow Energy Center instead of retiring it as planned. Sierra Club had previously praised GRE for its plans to close Coal Creek -- which GRE had admitted was losing customers $170 million a year -- and replace it with lower cost renewable energy. In to . . .
Earlier today, Great River Energy (GRE) announced that the utility would be selling its Coal Creek Station power plant to Rainbow Energy Center instead of retiring it as planned. Sierra Club had previously praised GRE for its plans to close Coal Creek -- which GRE had admitted was losing customers $170 million a year -- and replace it with lower cost renewable energy. In to . . .