News on more efforts to clean the environment in Florida: "FPL looking to purchase Indiantown coal-fired plant"

Susan Salisbury at The Palm Beach Post has this news and two excerpts from the article:

     Florida Power & Light Co. wants to purchase a coal-fired power plant in Indiantown for $451 million and immediately reduce the plant’s operations with the intention of eventually shutting it down.
     Juno Beach-based FPL filed a petition Monday with the Florida Public Service Commission proposing to purchase the ownership interest in the 330-megawatt Indiantown Cogeneration facility at 13303 S.W. Silver Fox Lane.
     FPL is requesting PSC approval of the purchase by December, so that the purchase can be completed as soon as possible to maximize customer savings.

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     FPL expects to operate the facility minimally through the end of 2018 as needed. After the expected addition of a new natural gas pipeline system into Florida in 2017 and with the high-efficiency natural gas-fired FPL Okeechobee Clean Energy Center entering service in 2019, FPL believes that the Indiantown Cogeneration plant will no longer be economic and plans to retire the facility years sooner than it otherwise would have been.