New Kentucky Power Plant

Area Development Site and Facility Planning, Apr/May 2005

EAST KENTUCKY Power Cooperative (EKPC) is planning to build a power plant in Clark County employing new technology that will allow it to burn coal more cleanly and efficiently. The plant will create a market for up to 1.2 million tons of coal annually and generate enough electricity to power 19 cities the size of Winchester.

New technology known as circulating fluidized bed will allow the plant to sharply reduce emissions. According to the state's Commerce secretary Jim Host, Kentucky will show the nation how to use coal as an increasingly clean resource.

The plant, which will be built at the J.K. Smith Station, a 3,000-acre site owned by EKPC in Trapp, will be the second facility in EKPC's fleet using the new technology. All told, the utility's investment in clean-coal technology will amount to more than $ 1.3 billion.