Iola officials will continue to pursue the addition of used diesel-powered generators to the city’s electric generating capacity.
Where they’ll sit, idle.
“We’re not planning to run them,” Scott Shreve, Iola’s energy consultant, said at Monday’s City Council meeting. “All you need is iron in the ground.”
He explained the rationale.
In order to maintain its status as a “partial-requirement electric utility,” Iola must be able to prove it can produce enough electricity on a given day to meet the entire city’s peak needs, plus 10 percent — about…
City discusses energy options
