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Utah’s largest coal-fired power plant — the Intermountain Power Project (IPP), located in the Great Basin region of western Utah and primarily serving southern California — is no longer operating, after the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power quietly pulled the plug just before Thanksgiving.
The shutdown happened with no impact on customers, despite the fact that the Utah Legislature blocked the Intermountain Power Agency from fully retiring its fossil fuel units this year and ordered that the units can’t be disconnected or decommissioned. However, no buyers have lined up to purchase these outdated plants and keep them running…