The Tennessee Valley Authority is considering shutting down another two coal-fired units in Kentucky.
TVA said Monday it is preparing an environmental assessment about whether it should install scrubbers and other pollution equipment at two units of its Shawnee Fossil Plant near Paducah, Ky., or simply close the two units.
After shuttering some or all of the John Sevier, Widows Creek, Allen and Paradise fossil plants, TVA is reviewing options for two of the nine units at Shawnee.
Units 1 and 4 at Shawnee are among 18 coal units TVA has committed to either clean up or shut down by 2018 under a pollution settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency three years ago.
The Shawnee Fossil Plant was completed in 1957 but demand for its power dropped last year when the U.S. Enrichment Corp., TVA’s biggest customer, shut down its Paducah plant.