The state of Washington has decided to step away from coal, considered by some to be one of the dirtiest methods for creating electricity for our grid, and the first benchmark of this deadline is coming up quickly.

According to Seattletimes.com,

‘ Starting next year, Washington utilities will no longer be allowed to use coal-fired electricity. For PSE, which uses more coal-fired electricity than any other state utility, this primarily has come from power plants in Colstrip, Mont., about 130 miles east of Beaver Creek, and in Centralia in Southwest Washington.’

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Part of the PSE (Puget Sound Energy) effort to get away from coal was to invest about $530 million in a wind farm in Montana. The Beaver Creek Wind Farm in Montana, when running at

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