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Benton Public Utility District

Cascade Policy Institute Responds to the Early Closure of the Boardman Coal Plant

At 11:56 am on Thursday, October 15, Portland General Electric (PGE) 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 […]
Written by Rachel Dawson October 24, 2020October 31, 2020

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