Accused by U.S. officials of misrepresenting its pollution-control capability, the InterGen power company has shut down one of two turbines it built at its new Mexicali, Mexico power station to generate electricity for export to the United States. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) says it had allowed InterGen to erect cross-border transmission lines on the understanding that both turbines producing U.S.-bound power at the La Rosita plant in Mexicali would be outfitted with selective-catalytic-reduction (SCR) technology. Yet only one of those turbines was, in fact, equipped with SCR scrubbers, the agency complains. (The 1,060-megawatt power station has four turbines; two produce electricity for the U.S. market, and two supply energy to northern Mexico.) InterGen, a joint venture of... [Log in to read more]