East Kentucky Power Cooperative bought more than 50,000 st of spot coal in September for its 1,371-MW Spurlock and 341-MW Cooper coal-fired power plants, according to a new regulatory filing.
The Winchester-based generation and transmission co-op paid as much as $67.28/st for 4,792 st of 13,270 Btu/lb coal from Southern Appalachian Coal to supply Cooper through the month, according to the Kentucky Public Service Commission filing, filed Friday. Cooper is located near Somerset.
EKPC also bought 15,491 st of 12,841 Btu/lb coal for $66.34/st from Blackhawk Coal Sales, also for Cooper.
During September, the co-op bought just over 32,000 st of spot coal, ranging from 11,514 Btu/lb to 12,478 Btu/lb, at an average $43.84/st for Spurlock, located near Maysville.
EKPC bought the coal from several suppliers, including River Trading, Oxford Mining and Alliance Resource Partners' large River View underground mine near Uniontown.
EKPC coal buyer West Kidd referred questions about the spot purchases to Nick Comer, a spokesman with the co-op, who declined to comment on the spot buys during a Tuesday interview, saying the information is confidential.
The co-op appears to have made some minor headway in September on reducing the coal stockpile at Spurlock's Gilbert Unit 3 and Spurlock-4.
They started the month with a combined stockpile of 405,377 st and ended with 391,029 st still on the ground.
Cooper, meanwhile, had a stockpile of 139,773 st at the start of September and 148,498 st at the close of the month.
