Dive Summary:

• In Indiana, U.S. power company AES Corp. is looking to convert a coal plant into a 550-to-725-megawatt (MW) combined cycle natural gas plant, in an effort to thwart strict emissions rules and save money on cheap natural gas.
• In addition, AES’s Indianapolis Power and Light has filed with state regulators to refuel its 106MW units at its Harding Street plant from coal to gas. But if the company doesn’t get approval, AES will have to retire the units because installing new emissions controls would be too costly.
• In Ohio, AES’s Dayton Power & Light (DP&L) will retire the six coal-fired units at the 390MW Hutchings coal, gas and oil-fired plant in Montgomery County.

From the article:
“DP&L said it investigated converting the Hutchings units from coal to gas but said the cost of investment exceeded the expected return.
The Hutchings units entered service between 1948 and 1968, according to federal data. The plant is near Miamisburg, about 12 miles (20 km) southwest of Dayton, Ohio.”