{"id":151485,"date":"2011-12-23T02:34:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T08:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=151485"},"modified":"2011-12-24T05:28:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T11:28:12","slug":"a-northeast-texas-power-plant-to-be-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=151485","title":{"rendered":"A Northeast Texas Power Plant to Be Shut Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=151486\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-151486\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/12\/Turk-Power-Plant-150x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Turk Power Plant\" width=\"150\" height=\"142\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-151486\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCOLUMBUS, OHIO \u2013 American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) and its operating unit Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) has announced that the company has settled all legal actions brought against it by the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society and Audubon Arkansas related to the John W. Turk Jr. Power Plant near Texarkana, Arkansas, which is pictured here. The 600-megawatt coal-fueled plant, which is under construction in Hempstead County, is more than 80% complete and scheduled to begin commercial operation in late 2012.<\/p>\n<p>When the Turk Plant begins operating, the 528-megawatt Welsh Unit 2 near Pittsburg will be limited to no more than 60% of its annual capacity. SWEPCO says then it will seek regulatory approval to retire Welsh Unit 2 no later than December 31, 2014.  Company officials said the retirement date could be extended to no later than December 30, 2016, if needed to complete transmission mitigation work related to the unit&#8217;s retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the settlement include:<br \/>\n*SWEPCO will contribute $8 million to The Nature Conservancy for land conservation in Arkansas.<br \/>\n*SWEPCO will contribute $2 million to the Arkansas Community Foundation, which will provide grants to support policy initiatives promoting clean energy resources and energy efficiency measures.<br \/>\n*SWEPCO will reimburse Sierra and Audubon for $2 million in attorneys\u2019 fees and costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, OHIO \u2013 American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) and its operating unit Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) has announced that the company has settled all legal actions brought against it by the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society and Audubon Arkansas related to the John W. Turk Jr. Power Plant near Texarkana, Arkansas, which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=151485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Northeast Texas Power Plant to Be Shut Down<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 05:24:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151485"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151717,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151485\/revisions\/151717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}