Red Rock Generating Facility
{{#badges: CoalSwarm}} In January 2007, Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company filed a six-year construction plan with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The plan included the construction of the Red Rock power plant, a 950 MW generating plant that would be owned in partnership with AEP-Public Service Company of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority.[1]
The Oklahoma State Legislature approved the process in 2005.[2] Chesapeake Energy Corp, the third largest independent gas producer in the US, and the Quality of Service Coalition, a group of utility consumers and cities that purchase power from a subsidiary of American Electric Power, asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to stop the Oklahoma Corporation Commission from considering pre-approval of the Red Rock Plant.[3][4]
On Sept. 10, 2007, with a 2-1 vote, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission denied the pre-approval permit for the plant, arguing that the utilities had not proven that they had sufficiently explored alternative forms of energy.[5] Oklahoma State Treasurer Scott Meacham also appeared in newspaper advertisements critical of the project.[6] On Oct. 11, the sponsors announced that they were discontinuing the project.[7]
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Project Details
Sponsor: PSO (a subsidiary of American Electric Power), Oklahoma Gas & Electric, and Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority
Location: Red Rock, OK
Capacity: 950 MW
Type: Ultrasupercritical
Projected in service: 2011
Status: Permit denied (9/07)
Financing
Citizen Groups
Resources
References
- ↑ "OG&E Announces 6-Year Construction Initiative", OG&E corporate website, January 17, 2007.
- ↑ "Red Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant on the Road to Rejection", The Journal Record, September 11, 2007.
- ↑ "Comment from Chesapeake Energy Corporation Concerning Decision Regarding the Red Rock Power Plant", Business Wire, September 11, 2007.
- ↑ Statement of Position of Quality of Service Coalition, Legal Filing, accessed January 2008. (Pdf)
- ↑ OCC Denies Application for Red Rock Plant, AEP corporate website, September 10, 2007.
- ↑ "State Treasurer Chimes In On Oklahoma Red Rock Proposal", CoalControl blog, September 6, 2007.
- ↑ “OG&E Says Unit Ends Plan to Build Oklahoma Power Plant", Reuters, October 11, 2007.
Related SourceWatch Articles
- Oklahoma and coal
- United States and coal
- Carbon Capture and Storage
- Existing U.S. Coal Plants
- US proposed coal plants (both active and cancelled)
- Coal plants cancelled in 2007
- Coal plants cancelled in 2008
- State-by-state guide to information on coal in the United States (or click on the map)
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External links
- "Tracking New Coal-Fired Power Plants", National Energy Technology Lab, May 1, 2007, page 18 (Pdf)
- "Stopping the Coal Rush", Sierra Club, accessed December 2007. (This is a Sierra Club list of new coal plant proposals.)
