East Kentucky Power plan to upgrade unit gets OK

Published February 20, 2014 8:47pm ET



FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A plan to let a coal-burning unit at the East Kentucky Power Cooperative J.S. Cooper Generating Station in south-central Kentucky has won approval from the state Public Service Commission.

The agency said the project is “relatively inexpensive” at $15 million and the least costly of options the co-op examined.

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