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Minnesota's Largest Coal Unit to Restart, Despite Concerns over Pollution, Emissions
2013-10-09 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: One of the Midwest`s largest coal-fired electric generation units is set to restart this week after a nearly two-year shutdown that required the unit to be rebuilt from the ground up. Xcel Energy Inc.`s Sherburne County Unit 3 generator, a 900-megawatt behemoth that provides baseload power to the Minneapolis-St. Paul region and points beyond, is expected to begin sending power to the grid after several days of testing, according to officials with the Minneapolis-based utility, which has a 59 percent...
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