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 [...]

Sierra Club targets campus power plants

Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com Emboldened by the conversion from coal at the Charter Street power plant in Madison, environmental groups now want a schedule for similar changes around Wisconsin. But state leaders say they do not know where the money will come from for such switches. “We certainly don’t have it in this budget,” said David [...]