Utah’s 4th largest coal power plant asks to keep burning into the 2040s

This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest challenges through the work of the Innovation Lab.[Subscribe to our newsletter here]The nonprofit cooperative that supplies power to most of rural Utah has asked state regulators to let it update the Bonanza Power Plant near Vernal so it can continue to burn coal for at least another decade.Deseret Power, the nonprofit cooperative that owns Bonanza, filed paperwork asking the Utah