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Coal-fired power plant in northwestern Colorado still set for 2028 closure despite Trump administration orders

A coal plant billows smoke in a background setting.
Hugh Carey
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The Colorado Sun
The Craig Station coal-burning power plant in Moffat County, Colorado, seen on Feb. 14, 2024, is expected to close by 2028.

The coal-fired Craig Station is still set to close in 2028 — even as the Trump administration is making a drive to keep coal units going — according to the operator’s electric resource plan filed with Colorado utility regulators on April 11.

Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, which runs the plant, says in its preferred plan that the Craig Unit 1 will close by the end of this year and units 2 and 3 will be shuttered in 2028.

Battery storage and a natural gas-fired plant will be added in Moffat County as part of the plan.

Three days before Tri-State filed its plan with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, President Donald Trump issued of and a for the plants.

A was aimed at it called “burdensome and ideologically motivated ‘climate change’ or energy policies.â€

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