Xcel stops burning coal at Ashland biomass plant – Wisconsin State Journal

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Xcel Energy has stopped burning coal at its Bay Front power plant, ending more than a century of coal use at the Ashland site. The utility announced Thursday that the last shovel of coal was burned Dec. 1 and going forward will use natural gas as a backup fuel for the 56-megawatt plant, whose generators can be powered by any of three boilers.

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