Michael Boyle of Energy Innovation illustrates reliability hurdles preventing coal plant retirements, detailing MISO's intervention in Ameren's retirement plan for Rush Island.
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“Now contrast that with the Rush Island plant in the Ameren service territory. So that power plant Ameren decided they wanted to retire it in September of last year, partially due to the expense of adding Pollution controls to comply with EPA regulations, and those were going to cost rate payers up to a billion dollars. Now, MISO stepped in and said, no, you have to keep that plant online until we make some upgrades to the transmission system that address some of the voltage support issues we have in this area of the grid.”
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