Coal Plants

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Electric Co-Op Customers May Be Subsidizing Dirty Energy

Posted in Coal Plants , Energy & Climate 1 month, 1 week ago

Wolverine Power Cooperative, a Cadillac, Michigan based electric cooperative with seven member cooperatives throughout northern Michigan, entered into a deal decades ago for power from coal-fired plants owned by the Ohio Valley Electric Company, or OVEC. The OVEC plants force Northern Michigan customers to pay millions more in electricity bills to subsidize "dirty coal". Olson, Bzdok & Howard helps represent the Sierra Club in Michigan Public Service Commission cases involving another utility, Indiana Michigan Power Company, and the OVEC plants.

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OBH works hard against DTE as they try to raise rates again

Posted in Coal Plants , Energy & Climate , Firm News 1 year, 7 months ago

Olson, Bzdok & Howard represents environmental groups and residential customers in another rate case. For more information, you can read the full Detroit Free Press article here.

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Two coal plants in Ohio to retire early

Posted in Coal Plants , Energy & Climate 4 years, 1 month ago

Dayton Power and Light (DP&L) and the Sierra Club have announced an agreement in principle to retire two coal plants in Ohio: Stuart and Killen, located along the Ohio River in the southwest part of the state. These two aging plants, totaling about 3,000 megawatts of coal-fired generation, will cease operation by June 1, 2018.

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