Three years ago, one of the country’s largest electric utilities, Southern Company, made a splash when it announced it would ...

The US should stop the closure of coal-fired power plants, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, adding the fuel source would ...

Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power has proposed a pivot toward extending the life of several existing coal and natural gas ...

Ottawa County commissioners peppered Consumers Energy executives with questions Tuesday, Feb. 11 about the upcoming May ...

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 ...

Georgia Power Wants to Keep Coal Plants Alive to Meet Electricity Demand ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. says it wants to keep burning coal to meet what it forecasts as the state’s increasing ...

He was speaking at a sustainability forum in Jakarta last Friday. “If we close the [coal] power plants, our economy will be destroyed,” he said. “After 2040, there will be no new [coal] power plants.

Xcel Energy's first Texas coal powerplant will soon use a different ... alternatives to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at the plant, but shifting to natural gas was the most efficient option ...

Ed Miliband may be agonising over the success of net zero but Xi Jinping has no such scruples. In a bid to meet soaring electricity demand, the Chinese premier is overseeing plans to burn more ...

China’s thermal power generation reached a record high in 2024, primarily due to the country’s coal-fired power plants, even as the country continues to add renewable energy resources to its […] ...

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 ...