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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: Oregon's Boardman Coal Plant closed. Now what?
Description: On Thursday, October 15, Portland General Electric pulled the plug on the Boardman Coal Plant, PGE’s largest power plant. Boardman had a nameplate capacity of 550 firm megawatts of power and was decommissioned 20 years prematurely.
While environmentalists celebrate the plant’s closure, utility executives are still trying to figure out how they will keep the lights on in our region.
That’s because the more coal plants our region removes from the grid, the more likely we are to experience future blackouts. Multiple studies from groups like the Northwest Power Pool, E3, and the Northwest Power and Co...