\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGov. Josh Shapiro’s office has asked a Pennsylvania court to approve a plan that would allow two coal-fired power plants to remain operational until 2032 by upgrading them to meet federal wastewater discharge regulations.Keystone and Conemaugh plants could stay open longerThe Keystone-Conemaugh Projects, or Key-Con, operate the Keystone and Conemaugh plants in Indiana and Armstrong counties.Both plants were originally scheduled to stop operating in December 2028, but the plan would extend their operation by four years if approved. Shapiro says plan would protect jobs and support the gridShapiro said the plants would protect energy jobs, support the energy grid, and reduce environmental impact. The proposal has bipartisan support, with President Joe Biden calling it “a big win for Pennsylvania.”McCormick says plants would provide reliable powerPennsylvania U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick said keeping the plants open would help create reliable power for schools, hospitals, and emergency services. Keystone-Conemaugh said it revised its plan to close the plants due to rising energy demand from data centers setting up operations across Pennsylvania, which has changed the outlook for the energy market.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office has asked a Pennsylvania court to approve a plan that would allow two coal-fired power plants to remain operational until 2032 by upgrading them to meet federal wastewater discharge regulations.<\/p>\n
Keystone and Conemaugh plants could stay open longer<\/p>\n
The Keystone-Conemaugh Projects, or Key-Con, operate the Keystone and Conemaugh plants in Indiana and Armstrong counties.<\/p>\n
Both plants were originally scheduled to stop operating in December 2028, but the plan would extend their operation by four years if approved. <\/p>\n
Shapiro says plan would protect jobs and support the grid<\/p>\n
Shapiro said the plants would protect energy jobs, support the energy grid, and reduce environmental impact. <\/p>\n
The proposal has bipartisan support, with President Joe Biden calling it “a big win for Pennsylvania.”<\/p>\n
McCormick says plants would provide reliable power<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick said keeping the plants open would help create reliable power for schools, hospitals, and emergency services. <\/p>\n
Keystone-Conemaugh said it revised its plan to close the plants due to rising energy demand from data centers setting up operations across Pennsylvania, which has changed the outlook for the energy market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office has asked a Pennsylvania court to approve a plan that would allow two coal-fired…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8289,50879,77703,77696,77705,77704,77697,77698,442,6111,10744,16156,1820,77694,62283,77695,2008,6495,28,76954,30,29,4583,77699,77700,521,14027,77701,77702],"class_list":{"0":"post-173270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-armstrong-county","9":"tag-bipartisan-support","10":"tag-coal-plant","11":"tag-coal-plants","12":"tag-coal-fired-power-plant","13":"tag-conemaugh-plant","14":"tag-extended-operations","15":"tag-federal-wastewater-discharge-regulations","16":"tag-gov-josh-shapiro","17":"tag-hospital","18":"tag-indiana","19":"tag-indiana-county","20":"tag-job","21":"tag-key-con","22":"tag-keystone","23":"tag-keystone-conemaugh-projects","24":"tag-office","25":"tag-operation","26":"tag-pennsylvania","27":"tag-pennsylvania-court","28":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","29":"tag-pennsylvania-news","30":"tag-plan","31":"tag-protect-energy-jobs","32":"tag-reduce-environmental-impacts","33":"tag-school","34":"tag-sen-dave-mccormick","35":"tag-support-the-energy-grid","36":"tag-two-coal-fired-power-plants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}