{"id":4377,"date":"2016-12-20T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T19:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2016-12-28T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T18:30:10","slug":"vectren-release-20-year-integrated-resource-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=4377","title":{"rendered":"Vectren releases 20 year Integrated Resource Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4379\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC5954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4379\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4379\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC5954-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC5954-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC5954-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC5954-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The FB Culley Unit 3 plant on the right would be the only coal plant left operating in the Vectren generation fleet if Vectren follows their just released IRP. Photo \u00a9 2012 BlairPhotoEVV<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>December 20, 2016-by John Blair\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><em>valleywatch.net<\/em> editor<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On December 16, Vectren Corporation the monopoly electric utility that serves much of southwest Indiana released is latest Integrated Resource Plan outlining its plan to meet their electric customers&#8217; power needs twenty years ahead to 2036. The plan was met with praise from Valley Watch and others who care about the enormous level of coal pollution in the Tri-State region centered in Evansville.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4380\" style=\"width: 619px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-20-at-1.11.57-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4380\" class=\"wp-image-4380\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-20-at-1.11.57-PM-1024x930.png\" width=\"609\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-20-at-1.11.57-PM-1024x930.png 1024w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-20-at-1.11.57-PM-300x272.png 300w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-20-at-1.11.57-PM-768x697.png 768w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-20-at-1.11.57-PM.png 1063w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the timeline that Vectren proposes for retiring much of their coal fleet. Screen Shot from Vectren IRP<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In brief, Vectren proposes to retire three of their four wholly owned coal units by 2024 and to &#8220;exit&#8221; its contractural operating agreement with Alcoa in Warrick County on a coal unit there. They also announced their intention to build a new Combined Cycle natural gas plant to make up for the lost generation capacity by shutting down the coal units.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The whole IRP can be accessed at <a href=\"http:\/\/Vectren.com\/irp\">Vectren.com\/irp<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 20, 2016-by John Blair\u00a0valleywatch.net editor On December 16, Vectren Corporation the monopoly electric utility that serves much of southwest Indiana released is latest Integrated Resource Plan outlining its plan to meet their electric customers&#8217; power needs twenty years ahead &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=4377\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,403,404,150],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coal","tag-coal-retirement","tag-irp","tag-vectren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4386,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/4386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}