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An aging coal power plant slated to shutter will run through the summer at the order of Energy Sec. Chris Wright, a decision ...
The grid operators that draw power from the plants said they never asked for them to remain open, and consumers may have to ...
The White House is taking unprecedented actions to steer the power grid away from clean energy and toward more fossil fuels.
The Department of Energy (DOE) is invoking emergency powers to keep a decades-old coal-fired power plant in Michigan online ...
China and India have approved the construction of the largest capacity of new coal-fired power plants in a decade, as the ...
On Monday, the very last coal-powered electricity plant in Britain is closing. The coal age is over in the country that sparked the industrial revolution 200 years ago. In a matter of hours ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — 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 ...
There’s been lots of attention in Washington, D.C. on how to help places left behind by the hundreds of coal plant closures around the country. The case of Homer City provides an example of what ...
“What you've seen is a lot of coal plants historically have been retired, and a lot of those have now been replaced with natural gas generation,” said Greg Upton of the Center for Energy ...
Experts have said there’s little evidence of a national energy emergency, and 15 states have sued to challenge Trump’s declaration.