New England’s electricity grid manager said yesterday it will allow Salem Harbor Power Station to close two coal-fired units in 2014 and proposed a fix to make the entire 60-year-old plant unneeded.
The decision by ISO New England follows plant owner Dominion Resources Inc.’s request in February to close the plant by June 2014. Dominion has said it won’t invest in upgrades at the four-unit, coal- and oil-fired plant, long targeted by environmentalists but valued by locals for jobs and tax revenues.
