The federal government hopes former coal towns will help the nuclear industry grow, by taking on the decades-long challenge ...

One of the oldest power plants in the United States, perched on the edge of the nation’s largest coal mine, was slated to close in 2027. But the plant’s operator recently canceled the ...

Mike Dunleavy has said the state may build two coal plants to provide power in remote mining areas ... be used to do this work on a larger scale. Inside Clean Energy is ICN’s weekly bulletin ...

Georgia Power Wants to Keep Coal Plants Alive to Meet Electricity Demand ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. says it wants to keep burning coal to meet what it forecasts as the state’s increasing ...

Harrington, whose three units have 1,018 MW of generation capacity, was Xcel’s first coal-fired power plant in Texas. It came online in 1976. The utility in 2020 made the decision to convert the ...

The coal-fired Baldwin Power Plant in southern Illinois was supposed ... is free to read. That’s because Inside Climate News is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. We do not charge a subscription ...

Since 2007, Georgia Power has retired 5,547 MW of capacity, including 4,787 MW of coal, 509 MW of oil, 132 MW of gas/oil dual-fuel, 118 MW of oil-fired combustion turbines, and 0.4 MW of hydro ...

In Illinois, renewable energy sources are supposed to fill the gaps as the dirty power from coal and gas would be eliminated once plants are closed. But the clean energy sources are not coming ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News ... I wrote about how five of the country’s 10 largest coal-fired power plants had retirement dates. Today, I’m revisiting the list ...