OMAHA — The Omaha Public Power District delayed a vote this month to move forward on a decade-old plan to transfer two coal units at a North Omaha power plant to natural gas.

The delay came a week after Nebraska’s attorney general sued the public utility.

OPPD’s elected board of directors had scheduled an Oct. 15 vote on whether to restart negotiations on a contract to install natural gas burners at two North Omaha Station units currently using coal. Those coal units have been running since the 1960s, while three other natural gas units, which switched away from coal in 2016, have operated since the 1950s.

OPPD has planned to “modernize” North Omaha Station since 2014 by retiring its oldest remaining natural gas units in North Omaha and ending coal burning. North Omaha residents have lo

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