In the settlement with Reliable Energy Inc., Duke said it will hire an engineering firm to study the feasibility of building the new gas plant while keeping Cayuga running. But that’s only if ...

Hannah Northey/POLITICO's E&E News Environmentalists are pushing back against the Trump administration’s move last month to force a coal plant to keep operating past its planned retirement.

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 decree thrust the J.H. Campbell power plant on the shores of Lake Michigan to the fore of President Donald Trump’s push to revive the country’s struggling coal industry.

The aim is to retire a 246 megawatt (MW) coal plant in Batangas province, South Luzon, by 2030 – ahead of its scheduled closure in 2040 – and replace it with renewable energy and battery storage.

After Trump's executive order, the TVA CEO said the federal utility would "reevaluate" its coal fleets, after years of saying coal burning would stop in 2035.

In Western Pa., the owners of the old Homer City plant demolished smokestacks and cooling towers and announced a $10 billion plan for a gas-powered data center campus.

FILE – The smokestacks of the former coal-fired Homer City Generating Station crumble in a planned demolition to make way for a new natural gas-fired power plant in Homer City, Pa., March 22, 2025.

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 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — 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 ...

In Alabama, the site of a coal-fired plant, Plant Gorgas, shuttered in 2019, will become home to Alabama Power’s first utility-scale battery energy storage plant.