The last two coal-burning units at the Naughton power plant near Kemmerer are scheduled to go dark this month so crews can ...

The U.S. energy secretary signed an order on Tuesday to keep a unit open at TransAlta coal power plant in Washington state through much of the winter, in the latest move by the Trump administration to ...

Image art by Kevin Clark via ChatGPT-4o. U.S. coal-fired power plants will stay well-stocked through the end of next year, despite a temporary increase in coal consumption for power generation in 2025 ...

Does the grid really need old coal-fired power plants to stay open? Coal power is on life support in the US. It used to carry the grid with cheap electricity, but now plants are closing left and right ...

The last coal-fired power plant in New England, Merrimack Station, has stopped running. Granite Shore Power, the company that owns the coal plant in Bow, New Hampshire, said they ceased commercial ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI - In a little more than five weeks, Consumers Energy poured $29 million into keeping an aging coal power plant online past its intended shutdown date under an emergency order from ...

On the day before Thanksgiving 2024, Utah's largest coal-fired power plant—the 1,900‑megawatt Intermountain Power Project ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants as ...

Dozens of retired coal-fired power plants could find new life providing backup or emergency power for the electricity grid – except this time without the need for fossil fuels. They could instead rely ...

Coal has historically been the largest source of global electricity generation. For the first half of the 20th century, more than half of the world’s electricity came from coal power plants. Until the ...