Kansas Power Operator Will Challenge Air-Quality Decision
“We’re going to go meet with some legislators to try and figure it out,” says Steve Miller, spokesman for the Hays, Kan.-based Sunflower Electric Power Corp., a cooperative of six utility companies. Miller says the group also is reviewing legal options. It has 15 days to appeal the decision.
The $3.6-billion project aimed to expand Sunflower’s existing 10,000-acre Holcomb campus with two new plants powered by Powder River Basin low-sulfur coal. The fuel would be pulverized and burned inside supercritical steam-turbine generators. Sunflower’s Holcomb expansion would be managed by San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp.