An aging coal power plant slated to shutter will run through the summer at the order of Energy Sec. Chris Wright, a decision that could cost Midwest energy customers tens of millions of dollars.

U.S. coal-fired power plants are expected to remain well stocked through the end of 2026, the U.S. Energy Information ...

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A 63-year-old coal-fired power plant was scheduled to permanently close its doors in Michigan on June 1. So was an oil- and gas-powered plant that was built in the 1960s in Pennsylvania.

Across the nation, aging coal plants are on a similar trajectory, as they struggle to compete with cheaper sources of energy. Once dominant, coal now supplies just 16% of American power.

Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the U.S., are becoming more valuable now that the suddenly strong demand for electricity to run Big Tech’s cloud ...

Photo courtesy Intermountain Power Agency The project has two main components: the $1.7-billion work around the new generating units at the plant and the $2.7-billion upgrades to IPA’s Southern ...

Coal-fired power plants were the third-largest source of energy in Pennsylvania as of 2023, providing only about 5% of the state’s electricity. That was down from 39% in 2013, according to the U ...

Goree, 72, lives in Beckville, a town of fewer than 800 people, just miles from the Martin Lake coal plant, a 2.4-gigawatt facility that has loomed over the region since the late 1970s.

A plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H., in 2015. It is the last operating coal-fired power plant in New England and is slated to close in 2028.

An aging coal power plant slated to shutter will run through the summer at the order of Energy Sec. Chris Wright, a decision that could cost Midwest energy customers tens of millions of dollars.