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NRG Draws Kudos, Criticism for Plans to Repower Coal Plants With Natural Gas, an Industrial Info News Alert

SUGAR LAND, TX — (Marketwired) — 08/13/13 — Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — (NYSE:NRG) (Princeton, New Jersey) is being praised by elected officials in Pennsylvania and Ohio for its decision to repower more than 1,000 megawatts (MW) of in those states that had been slated for closure by their previous owner. But the company is drawing a more mixed response in upstate New York, where its plan to repower an aging coal plant is being opposed by an unusual collection of environmental organizations, business interests and a distribution company with a lot to lose if that repowering goes forward.

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