Entergy Texas purchased 140,977 st of coal in April, up 30.3% from the 108,165 st purchased a month earlier, according to a regulative filing revealed Tuesday.

drag-reducing agents told the general public Utility Commission of Texas it purchased 67,113 st of coal for its 241-MW Big Cajun No. 2 plant and also 73,401 st for its 385-MW Nelson-6 unit, compared to 43,120 st and 63,461 st purchased in March, specifically, according to the filing.

The continuing to be 463 st was listed as physical inventory changes, compared to 1,584 st in adjustments a month previously.

In the year-ago month, 293,685 st was provided to the Huge Cajun plant, while no coal was provided to the Nelson plant, according to information from the US Energy Info Administration.

The Entergy device paid roughly $4.99 million for the coal, or $35.43/ st, compared with $3.85 million, or $35.56/ st in March, according to the filing.

The typical warmth material for Big Cajun No. 2 was 8,458 Btu/lb, while Nelson-6 averaged 8,472 Btu/lb for coal from the Powder River Container.

Approximately $2.54 million, or $37.81/ st, worth of coal was supplied to Large Cajun No. 2, while $2.38 million, or $32.44/ st, well worth of coal was bought for the Nelson unit.

The declaring did not offer any information on the distributors of April's coal. In the year-ago month, 146,003 st was supplied by Kiewit's Buckskin mine, while 82,183 st was supplied by Arc Coal's Black Rumbling and also Coal Creek mines and 32,664 st was from Peabody's Caballo mine. The remaining 32,835 st was from Blackjewel's Eagle Butte mine, although it was had by Contura Energy at the time.

March and April are normally slower months for utilities, which tend to carry out maintenance at that time of the year.

In April, Nelson-6 created 6,798 MWh of power, which cost $200,869 or $29.55/ MWh, compared with 8,100 MWh at a cost of $150,899, or $18.63/ MWh a month earlier. Large Cajun No. 2 did not generate power in April, compared with 57,485 MWh produced in March.

Large Cajun No. 2 opened in 1983 and also lies in New Roadways, Louisiana, while Nelson-6 began procedures in 1982 and remains in Westlake, Louisiana.