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Homer City coal-fired power plant owners say they may deactivate units

Homer City Generating Station The Homer City Generating Station, a 2-gigawatt power generating station in Homer City, Indiana County. Photographed Feb. 15, 2019. (PAUL J. GOUGH/Pittsburgh Business Times)

PITTSBURGH — One of the region’s last remaining coal-fired power plants announced Monday that it was considering deactivating some of its units and would make a decision by April.

Homer City Generation LP said it asked regional grid operator PJM Interconnection whether it could decide not to participate in the required 2023-24 base residual auction for at least some units and whether it could deactivate those units by May 2023.

Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times.

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