Kentucky's Proposed Generation Indicates that Coal is Still King

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Developers proposing up to 8,500 megawatts (MW) of new generation in Kentucky are looking heavily at coal. If all projects are constructed, this would increase generation capacity by 38%, raising the state's capacity from 22,255 MW to about 31,000 MW. Planned generation unit additions will use coal technologies as the primary fuel by natural gas followed by hydroelectric, wind and landfill gas units.

Environmentalists have more than 2,000 MW of the coal generation projects tied up in litigation, and about 3,900 MW of coal integrated gasification combined-cycle projects are on hold because of economic concerns. About 1,500 MW could still be in the mix. On the renewable front, there is a landfill gas-to-energy project that East Kentucky Power Cooperative (Winchester, Kentucky) is developing that will increase its landfill gas capacity by 10% to 17.6 MW. Conventional hydroelectric and hydrokinetic projects will increase the state's hydroelectric capacity 48.6% from 758 MW to about 1,120 MW. One 100 MW wind project is also under development in the state.

About 87.75% of the new generation in Kentucky being developed is composed of 20 coal-technology-fueled generation units for more than 7,400 MW. Natural gas generation comes in a distant second with plans for 580 MW of new capacity, or 6.8%. Hydropower comes in third with 360 MW, or about 4.2% of the generation being developed.

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