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This June 3, 2011, photo shows the Huntington coal-fired Power Plant owned by PacifiCorp in Huntington, Utah.If all goes according to plan — and that’s a pretty big “if” — none of Utah’s electricity will come from coal-fired power plants as of the year 2032. A mere 10 years in the future. After more than a century of Utah depending mostly on coal for its electricity.There are many factors that have gone into these decisions, from federal sticks and carrots to global market shifts.
Now, with previous RMP plans to move to wind and solar supplemented by a new kind of nuclear power generation, the end of coal power has been moved up. The Intermountain Power Plant near Delta and the Bonanza Power Plant near Vernal, the only other utility-scale power plants in the state, were already on schedule to stop burning coal before 2030.
Adding a new kind of nuclear power plant into the formula may or may not make a big difference. A process called a— developed by an outfit called TerraPower, backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates — was already on the drawing board for a PacifiCorp facility near Kemmerer, Wyoming, and, now, for Hunter and Huntington as well.
It is true that PacifiCorp’s calculations have been influenced by various decisions of the federal government. The Environmental Protection Agency has been pushing the Hunter and Huntington plants, among others, to cut down on the amount of pollutants that rise from their stacks and spread across Utah and into other states.
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