"Tri-State and Platte River become the first utilities to challenge Trump’s emergency stay-open orders for coal plants, citing the cost to customers."
"The Trump administration is facing lawsuits from states and environmental groups opposing its use of emergency power to force aging coal plants to stay online. Now, add utilities to its list of challengers.
Last week, the cooperative utilities Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association and Platte River Power Authority filed a petition asking the Department of Energy to reconsider its December order demanding that they keep running Craig Generating Station’s Unit 1, a jointly owned coal plant in Colorado, for the next 90 days.
Tri-State and Platte River — along with co-owners Salt River Project, PacifiCorp, and Xcel Energy — have been preparing to close the plant since 2016, both to comply with Colorado’s plan to shutter all coal generation by 2030 and to replace an aging and increasingly expensive source of power. Forcing them to operate it past December will require their members to bear unnecessary costs, which constitutes an “uncompensated taking” of their property in violation of the Constitution, the petition argues."
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