Trans-Alta coal plant in Centralia, WA to be gone by 2025

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/03/05/phase-out-for-washingtons-biggest-polluter/

Washington’s biggest emitter of air pollution, the Trans-Alta coal plant in Centralia, will soon cut its nitrogen oxide emissions and then permanently shut its giant boilers in 2020 and 2025, in a far-reaching accord announced Saturday.
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The Trans-Alta plant is a big employer in economically hard-hit Lewis County, a source of family wage union jobs. But it is the state’s largest emitter of air pollution, greenhouse gases and mercury.
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Environmental groups had sought shutdown of the coal boilers by 2015, with a possible extension to 2017. The accord says the first boiler will go down on Dec. 31, 2020, and the second five years later.

Trans-Alta gets the ability and assurance to negotiate long-term power sales agreements while the coal-burning plant remains in operation.

But Trans-Alta has committed to install, by 2013, new pollution control technology to further reduce its nitrogen oxide emissions.

Trans-Alta will commit $50 million to a community investment fund to help with energy efficiency projects and $25 million to an energy technology fund.
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The Trans-Alta work force stands to get a soft landing. Its average age is just over 50, meaning the 10-to-15 year phaseout will carry many employees to retirement age.