June 8, 2025
Alabama Power cleared to acquire 900-MW gas-fired plant from Tenaska to plug looming capacity shortfall
The plant is needed to help plug a projected resource adequacy shortfall expected to reach nearly 1.2 GW by 2029.
The plant is needed to help plug a projected resource adequacy shortfall expected to reach nearly 1.2 GW by 2029.
The agency finds that the pair of pipeline projects by subsidiaries of Kinder Morgan would span ecologically sensitive watersheds and disturb thousands of acres of land, providing an early glimpse of the extent of mitigation measures required.
The acquisition concerns an 895-MW natural gas and oil-fired combined cycle electric generating plant.