The coal-fired Craig Station is still set to close in 2028 — even as the Trump administration is making a drive to keep coal units going — according to the operator’s 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 an executive order to expand production of “beautiful clean coal” and a proclamation easing Environmental Protection Agency standards for the plants.
A second presidential executive order was aimed at blocking state environmental and clean energy policies it called “burdensome and ideologically motivated ‘climate change’ or energy policies.”
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