Duke CEO: Rail costs at issue in plans to burn natural gas at coal plants

Rail transportation costs factor into Duke Energy’s plans to modify its two Cliffside coal-burning units to also burn natural gas and will impact calculations on whether to modify other plants, CEO Lynn Good says. The Cliffside plant has only one rail line, operated by CSX Corp., that hauls coal into the region. Duke finds transportation costs are more expensive at plants with just one rail line, Good says. Making it possible for Cliffside to use natural gas as well as coal— called co-firing…

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