FABRIC
FILTER NEWSLETTER
January 2010
No. 411
Duke Power has agreed to a consent decree on their 1999 lawsuit regarding their Gallagher facility in Indiana. The $85 million settlement also requires Duke to spend $6.25 million on environmental mitigation projects (including funds to the U.S. Forest Service.) Duke must decide by January 2012 whether to repower units 1 and 3 (which are currently coal fired) with natural gas or shut them down. (By using natural gas rather than coal, Duke will eliminate emissions of particulate matter and mercury from the units. In addition if Duke opts to switch to natural gas the EPA estimates CO2 emissions to go down 50 percent.) The settlement also requires that Duke install new SO2 controls at units 2 and 4.
According to reports, this is the 17th Clean Air Act settlement related to emissions from coal-fired power plants under the new source review requirements.
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