Coal-fired power plant in northwestern Colorado still set for 2028 closure despite Trump administration orders
By Mark Jaffe | The Colorado Sun
The coal-fired Craig Station is still set to close in 2028 — even as the Trump administration is making a drive to keep coal units going — according to the operator’s electric resource plan filed with Colorado utility regulators on April 11.
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, which runs the plant, says in its preferred plan that the Craig Unit 1 will close by the end of this year and units 2 and 3 will be shuttered in 2028.
Battery storage and a natural gas-fired plant will be added in Moffat County as part of the plan.
Three days before Tri-State filed its plan with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to expand production of “beautiful clean coal” a...