Another former coal-fired power plant in Wisconsin has completed the switch to using natural gas as a fuel source.
Citizen groups pleaded with We Energies for years to reduce the potentially harmful emissions coming out of the company’s coal-burning Valley Power Plant near downtown Milwaukee.
The utility eventually decided to keep the plant open but switch to cleaner-burning natural gas. The company is now showing the completed conversion to the news media.
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Vice President Tom Metcalf told reporters emissions are down.
We Energies’ Tom Metcalf at the Valley Power Plant. Chuck Quirmbach/WPR
“The Valley and city is cleaner as a result of this conversion, and we continue to provide an essential resource for energy in the city,” Metcalf said. “I think it’s an extremely positive message.”
An attorney who has represented the Cleaner Milwaukee Coalition said the group is very pleased with the Valley Power Plant conversion.
We Energies said it moved the old coal piles to burn at its massive coal-fired plant in Oak Creek.
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