GOP lawmakers hoping to forestall the 2025 retirement of Utah's largest power plant have settled on a compromised version of HB425, calling for a 'study' into keeping the Intermountain power station operating under state ownership.
HB425 passes, now calling for study into keeping coal-fired IPP operating after scheduled retirement in 2025.
The bill’s passage fell in doubt this week when the House and Senate declined to adopt each others’ versions, prompting a conference committee to convene to hammer out a compromise. Because of these outside pressures, rural lawmakers argue Utah’s sovereignty is being trampled. Ivory framed HB425 as a way to reclaim some of that sovereignty, but some critics dismissed it as more of a message bill, rather than a measure that will actually keep the workhorse power plant spinning out electrons.
Installing cement liners would cost hundreds of millions, he said. Continued operation would also require the installation of emission controls that would likely cost hundreds of millions more, according to Intermountain Power Agency’s lawyers. But IPA executives are concerned that just having discussions with the state about keeping the plant operating beyond 2025 risks a 135-day shut down order from the EPA.
Republicans argued that the study HB425 now proposes would illuminate the best options for the plant’s future.
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