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The owner of the 92.6-MW James River Genco plant in Virginia filed a request with grid operator PJM Interconnection to shutter the plant at end of March 2019.
The plant, located in Hopewell, Va., notified PJM on March 14 of its interest to shut the plant, which burns bituminous coal. In 2016, the plant bought Central Appalachian coal from mines in Kentucky and Virginia. A PJM reliability study has not found any impacts to the grid from the retirement. In early 2017, City Point Energy Center LLC, a subsidiary of...