Big Pivots: Might coal be around in Colorado awhile longer?

Big Pivots: Might coal be around in Colorado awhile longer?

Coal plants in Colorado a year or two ago seemed clearly on their way to imminent retirements. Two of the state’s nine units were scheduled to retire at the end of 2025 with all others planned to burn their last loads before the end of 2030. Now, coal seems unready to exit quite so fast. Utilities may ask for delayed retirement of several plants, one of them until 2033 or conceivably beyond. A concept called resource adequacy has increasingly en…