Fossil-Fuel Power Plants Push Back Maintenance

SUGAR LAND--May 22, 2020--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Major U.S. and Canadian power plant owners, such as DTE Energy Company (NYSE:DTE) (Detroit, Michigan), Xcel Energy Incorporated (NASDAQ:XEL) (Minneapolis, Minnesota) and Idacorp Incorporated (NYSE:IDA) (Boise, Idaho), have been carefully determining which maintenance-related projects they can afford to delay as they practice measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Industrial Info is tracking nearly 100 maintenance-related projects in the U.S. and Canada that have faced delays or otherwise have been affected by COVID-19 precautions, with natural gas-fired and coal-fired units accounting for about 90% of the count.

Within this article: Details on some of the outages to be delayed or otherwise affected at facilities owned by major companies such as DTE Energy Company (NYSE:DTE), Westlake Chemical Corporation (NYSE:WLK), Capital Power Corporation and Basin Electric Power Cooperative.