There is one operating coal-fired power plant left in New England, a far cry from the widespread use of coal that began nearly a century-and-a-half ago. That plant — the Merrimack Power Station ...

A major coal power plant in Arizona will soon be converted to natural gas generation. The Salt River Project Board approved ...

United Illuminating opened the plant in 1957 to provide power needed by industry in southwestern Connecticut. It was designed to burn oil or coal, but was converted to coal-only in 2002.

The news comes amid a larger fight over what the transition to cleaner energy should look like — or if there should be a move ...

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.

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. Texas-based Vistra, meanwhile, is in ...

In 2018 Granite Shore Power bought Merrimack Station in Bow and Schiller Station, a smaller coal-fired plant on the banks of the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, from Eversource.

Eaton to repurpose retired coal-fired power plant in Tennessee into a critical asset supporting electric grid reliability. (Image credit: Eaton) As more electricity comes from variable sources and ...

However, the agreements for selling power from the 1,800-MW coal plant were scheduled to terminate in 2027. In 2015, ...

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 ...

A plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H., in 2015. It is the last operating coal-fired power plant in New England and is slated to close in 2028.

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.