The coal-fired Craig Station is still set to close in 2028 鈥� even as the Trump administration is making a drive to keep coal units going 鈥� according to the operator鈥檚 electric resource plan filed with Colorado utility regulators on April 11.
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, which runs the plant, says in its preferred plan that the Craig Unit 1 will close by the end of this year and units 2 and 3 will be shuttered in 2028.
Battery storage and a natural gas-fired plant will be added in Moffat County as part of the plan.
Three days before Tri-State filed its plan with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, President Donald Trump issued of and a for the plants.
A was aimed at it called 鈥渂urdensome and ideologically motivated 鈥榗limate change鈥� or energy policies.鈥�
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