Entergy Arkansas prepares to fill energy gap for when Independence, Redfield coal plants close | White River Now [Video]

In a recently published Arkansas Business interview, Entergy Arkansas CEO Laura Landreaux said the state’s largest electrical utility should know by the end of 2024 what its replacement strategies will be when it shuts down its Independence County coal-fired plant in 2030.

“That’s all under development now,” Landreaux told the Little Rock-based publication in an interview published Monday. (A subscription and/or email address may be required for Arkansas Business.) “We’re developing what we call our 2024 Integrated Resource Plan, a plan that we do every three years. We look at the load we have coming online, the resources we have, and what we’re going to need to build.”

Some of that power is certain to be solar, Landreaux said, but since solar units only operate when the sun is shining, other renewable sources will also help fill part of the gap. Once the Integrated Resource Plan is completed at the end of the …