Entergy pushes cost-saving plant conversion again
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Entergy Corp. has pushed back the $1.5 billion project to convert a LaPlace power plant to coal from natural gas until 2009, according to Industrial Info Resources.
The utility had announced in April that the project would be delayed several months because an unrelated federal court decision would require Entergy to submit another layer of environmental analysis.
The project will repower an older, oil and gas-fired unit at the Little Gypsy site by installing two state-of-the-art circulating fluidized boilers capable of using lower-cost petroleum coke and coal. In April, Entergy estimated the switch, at current natural gas prices, would save customers $150 million in fuel costs during its first year of operations.
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