“Making the necessary long-term investments to relieve transmission congestion will allow development of additional renewable resources in the near-term and facilitate long-term growth of the region,” said Chad Teply, PacifiCorp senior vice president for business policy and development, in the release.Ĭox said that the new Integrated Resource Plan will result in a carbon emissions reduction of 43% by 2025 and 59% by 2030, as compared to a 2005 baseline.
The company is already building a 140-mile segment, Gateway West, in Wyoming. In a news release, PacifiCorp said it will construct a 400-mile transmission line called Gateway South to connect southeastern Wyoming and northern Utah. “It’s industry-wide, not just with us, but over 50% of our employees are over age 60,” Cox said. Hall said the company does not anticipate layoffs as a result of the closures, as the plants will not cease production all at once and much of its workforce is nearing retirement age. These earlier closures include Wyoming’s Jim Bridger Unit 1 (2023) and 2 (2028) Wyoming’s Naughton 1 and 2 (2025) Colorado’s Craig 2 (2026) and Montana’s Colstrip 3 and 4 (2027).Īdditional closures will take place as scheduled in the 2017 Integrated Resource Plan. PacifiCorp also announced the closure, ultimately, of 20 of the company’s 24 coal units by 2038, including some units which will be shuttered earlier than the previous timetable. Rocky Mountain Power communications manager Spencer Hall. “So essentially, what the storage would be there for is to help save some of that electricity, some of that solar in the middle of the day, or 3 p.m., for a couple of hours until the peak,” he said. Though solar panels’ peak capacity comes at midday when the sun is highest, peak consumption generally occurs in the evening hours, Cox said. It includes, for the first time, plans for battery storage of solar power that will allow solar energy to be used after it is collected. The company’s 2019 plan is a 20-year projection of PacifiCorp’s energy portfolio. “It’s really kind of a new beginning,” he said. “Now we’re kind of entering a new era where energy production, customers want a different kind of mix, they want low emissions, and we share that value. “I think traditionally, everybody understood that you fire up a coal plant and you run it full speed and power everybody, and it was as simple as that,” Hall said. Rocky Mountain Power communications manager Spencer Hall called the 2019 plan an “inflection point in the history of the company.” Jon Cox, vice president of governmental affairs for Rocky Mountain Power, said Wednesday that 1 megawatt of energy can power about 800 homes. Megawatts generally refer to a source’s peak capacity and do not represent the average output of an energy source. The 2019 Integrated Resource Plan includes more than 3,500 megawatts of new wind generation by 2025 3,000 MW of new solar power by 2025 600 MW of battery storage by 2025 400 miles of transmission line construction and the retirement of 16 of PacifiCorp’s 24 coal units by 2030. SALT LAKE CITY - Rocky Mountain Power parent company PacifiCorp released a biennial draft of its long-term energy plan Thursday, calling for increases in wind and solar output while planning to shutter some coal facilities over the next decade. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.
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