In addition to the two proposed nuclear plants, the plan includes significantly more wind, solar and storage capacity. “First and foremost, we’re going to see unprecedented growth at a faster pace to ramp out procurement of renewables and storage, " said Rick Link, senior vice president for resource planning procurement and optimization at PacifiCorp, The plan also firmly plants Utah’s principal provider of electricity on a carbon-free path.Įnd of an era: A Rocky Mountain Power decision to end coal-fired electricity production means the Huntington Power Plant west of Huntington will shut down in less than 10 years. “We’re sorry to see the coal plants go, but we’re excited to see the nuclear come.” “We as commissioners and the people in Emery County had hopes that our coal plants would be so valuable they’d make it past even the 2042 closure date,” said Emery County Commissioner Lynn SItterud. Within a decade, Utah will have no coal-fired power plants for the first time in more than a century. The other two utility-scale coal plants still operating in Utah - the Intermountain Power Plant near Delta and the Bonanza Power Plant near Vernal - are also expected to stop burning coal before 2030. That end comes years before the original closure dates for the Huntington (2036) and Hunter (2042) plants.
He explained that they always recommend customers stay prepared to handle outages with enough supplies and a backup plan to last for 72 hours.On Friday afternoon, PacifiCorp, the Oregon-based parent company of Rocky Mountain, released its Integrated Resource Plan, which explains where the company intends to get power across its six-state system for the next 20 years, and that plan puts a period at the end of coal power in Utah. Some of the outages are planned for the midday hours, while others including the one impacting the Baker home will take place during the late afternoon and evening.Įskelsen said they try to give customers at least a 24-hour notice, so people can prepare a plan.
“We need to get these projects done, because you run the risk of having an equipment failure that makes a bigger outage and takes longer to fix.” That is, it’s probably not a good idea to wait,” he said. “What we’re trying to do is, only do those projects that are really pressing. But the start to September is turning out to be unusually warm. He explained that these repairs need to happen and were scheduled during a time when the weather is typically cooler. “We have put off a lot of maintenance because of the hot weather this year,” Eskelsen said. Over the next 10 days, nearly 600 homes between Herriman, Cottonwood Heights, Draper, and South Jordan will experience outages lasting anywhere from 4 to 6 hours. But some projects require pulling houses off the grid. Rocky Mountain Power spokesperson David Eskelsen said they try to be sensitive to the need to de-energize customers in order to perform work.
He’s worried about how this will impact people with health issues.
“It just didn’t make much good sense.”īaker isn’t just concerned about his household. “They scheduled this planned service or repair… during the hottest part of the day, in a record-breaking heat wave,” Baker pointed out. He’s concerned about how hot it’ll get inside their home, with the forecast calling for upper 90s to triple digit temperatures.
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