Del. Officials, NRG Agree on Indian River Unit Shutdown
NRG and Delaware regulators have come to a tentative agreement to shut another unit at NRG's Indian River coal plant.
The two oldest units are being shut this year and next under a 2007 consent decree.
The latest agreement would shut the third unit in 2013, thereby eliminating 30 to 40 billion gallons of annual cooling water withdrawals from the river. The fourth and newest unit has a closed cooling system and needs little water.
Under the 2007 deal, unit 3 was to be retrofitted with new emissions controls. Now, only unit 4 will be retrofitted, at a cost of $360 million.
NRG is planning the Bluewater Wind off-shore wind project near the Delaware coast to help compensate for the power loss.
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