Kentucky to Lose Two More Coal-Fired Units

SUGAR LAND--November 30, 2017--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Coal Country soon will be losing two more coal-fired power generating units. Kentucky Utilities (Lexington, Kentucky), a subsidiary of PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL) (Allentown, Pennsylvania), in mid-November announced plans to close units 1 and 2 of the E.W. Brown Power Station in February 2019. The two units, each more than 50 years old, have combined generating capacity of about 272 megawatts (MW). Unit 3 at the Brown station, with 409 MW of generating capacity, will continue operating, the utility said.

Within this article: Status of the E.W. Brown Power Station.