Utah may turn IPP area into a special district to accelerate sale of coal generators there

By: Alixel Cabrera

Outlets: Utah News Dispatch

Published: March 24, 2026

Words: 615

Last Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Utah’s efforts to keep the Intermountain Power Plant’s coal-powered units are still preliminary two years after the Legislature moved to block their planned closure. Now, lawmakers want to accelerate the process to re-open them by creating a new special district to ease the process for potential buyers for the plant’s coal generators.

That provision was included in a bill Santa Clara Republican Rep. Neil Walter sponsored this year expanding the Utah Energy Council from …

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