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.

The smokestacks on the aging Sherco coal power plant tower over gleaming solar panels that stretch across thousands of acres of farmland. The polluting coal plant is on its way out, scheduled for ...

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 ...

Above the deck on the fourth floor of Unit 3 inside Consumer Energy’s J.H. Campbell power plant, a sign proclaims the electricity flowing from the coal-fired beast is a “KEY to Michigan’s ...

BEIJING — China’s power industry began construction on nearly 100 gigawatts of new coal plant capacity last year, the most in nearly a decade, a report from two clean-energy groups said Thursday.

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 ...