CASPER â A utility cooperative operating across four Western states has announced a potential plan to stop taking power from a coal plant in Wyoming after 2033.
Thatâs according to a recent energy resource plan Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association submitted to Colorado regulators earlier this month.
On Dec. 1, Tri-State submitted an electric resource plan with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.
In the document, it outlined a âpreferred plan,â which would include retiring unit 3 at the Laramie River Station, located just east of Wheatland.
âModeling performed under the preferred plan showed that the continued operation of both Unit 2 and Unit 3 at levels needed to satisfy and maintain an 80% CO2 reduction in Colorado would not be economic, which is why the preferred plan reflects a retirement of (Laramie River Station) Unit 3,â the resource plan stated.