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The Louisiana Public Service Commission has approved plans for a 600-megawatt coal-fired power plant in southwestern Arkansas that would also serve parts of Louisiana and Texas.
Southwestern Electric Power Co. hopes to build the $1.3 billion plant in Hempstead County, near Fulton. The Arkansas Public Service Commission has already approved the company's request, but opponents have appealed that decision.
A case is pending before the Arkansas Court of Appeals.
The company's plan is pending before the Texas Public Service Commission.
SWEPCO, a subsidiary of American Electric Power, says the plant is needed to provide electricity to 111,000 customers in Arkansas, as well as some of its 340,000 customers in Texas and Louisiana.
The utility hopes to open the plant in 2011.
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