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 cancelled the ...

Coal is a fossil fuel formed by layers of sediment. Millions of years ago, thick layers of plants were covered by dirt and water, as early Earth was mostly made up of swamplands. Plants and ...

The evidence so far only shows that some plants are getting small extensions on their retirement dates. This means a slowdown in coal’s rate of decline, which is bad for the environment ...

Without alternatives for backup generation to secure power supply at peak demand and low wind speeds, coal plants could be needed into the 2030s, too, Christoph Mueller, chief executive at German ...

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 ...

the state’s last utility-owned coal plant will cease running, with operations set to end later this year. But the North Valmy Generating Station, located near Battle Mountain, isn’t being retired, as ...

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 ...

Germany may need to keep its fleet of mothballed coal-fired stations available for longer than expected as a drive to build new gas plants is severely behind schedule, grid operator Amprion GmbH ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Plant Bowen, commonly known as Bowen Steam Plant, is a Coal power station, operating, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 ...

Colorado is slowly phasing out the last of its coal-fueled electrical power plants, even though they still generated a third of the state’s total in-state energy generation in 2023. The Colorado ...

However, cost concerns may slow the push elsewhere: investors have jumped ship from Indonesia’s inaugural gasification project, while the tab for a gas refit of a coal-fired power plant in Japan ...