There go the best jobs the Navajo ever had.

Can't imagine what it cost to have them tore down. Asbestos abatement was probably astronomical alone I imagine. I've done Powerhouse maintenance in a four Boiler/ Generator plant for 20 years now. Hot, dirty hard work with not a lot of new technology, think 1970 mindset, but your right about good paying jobs that are disappearing across the country. We shut three coal fired boilers down in the last two years and two of the four coal fired boilers at my unit are planned to mothballed in next four and seven years.

Chuck,

You mention 3 shut down and 2 to be mothballed.
Is that accurate, or just figures of speech.

3 are closed, forever done?

2 to be shut down, but preserved.

What's the restart on the mothballed ones look like?
Time, work, money.


No plants right here, but bunches within 60 miles.
Most still burning dinosaurs, but the number of mines
is shrinking. Especially the metallurgical ones.

That video and one of blowing the stacks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Se3p9Ca_Vg) seems so strange to me as I lived there for a year while the plant was being built.

Bruce

The ones that have been shut done have all been torn done already. You can watch YouTube for Cane Run LGE Powerhouse demolish and see it, it's kind of cool. The two were I work now due to be decommissioned in 2025 and 2029, gone for good. They have built one Combined Technologies plant rated for 650MW for the three that was torn down already and not sure about next two. Not sure why, but they can't demo them fast enough to suit them when they decommission them. Like they want to make sure they are never available again. To be honest, most coal fired plants have almost doubled their time in use cycle when shut down. I think they thought Nuclear Plants were going to be the norm by now when the coal fired plants were built in the 60s and 70s. Not sure the latest fair haired child, Combined Technology plants, will survive long once Fracking is more heavily looked at either.