Minnesota power plant on tap for conversion (10:23 a.m. 2/16/10)

Published: February 16, 2010
Tags: Black Dog Plant, CH2M Hill Inc., coal, conversion, Minnesota, natural gas, power plant, Riverside Plant, St. Paul High Bridge Plant, Xcel Energy

By Bob Geiger Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Xcel Energy’s Black Dog Plant is expected to become an all-natural, gas-powered facility, significantly cutting emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury and carbon in the Minnesota River Valley. Part of the Burnsville plant, originally designed in the 1950s to burn coal, was converted in 2002 to [...]