The smokestacks on the aging Sherco coal power plant tower over gleaming solar panels that stretch across thousands of acres of farmland. The polluting coal plant is on its way out, scheduled for ...

This funding will facilitate the development of 35 megawatts of solar energy on the former Diamond Shamrock site and replace a coal-fired peaker plant with a 10-megawatt battery. Made possible because ...

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Coal-fired electric power has been like the Incredible Shrinking Man of 21 st century energy in the United States. Low-cost natural gas burned in modern combined cycles, inexpensive and subsidized ...

A South Texas coal-fired power plant will receive more than $1 billion from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to convert into a solar and battery facility, according to the agency. The switch by San ...

An emergency order last month from Washington rattled Michigan regulators: The Trump administration reversed the state’s plan to retire an aging power plant, forcing it to remain open and continue ...

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.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Coal-fired power plants will face pressure and in some cases closure despite a Republican energy plan favorable to the industry and a court victory against new environmental ...

One of the oldest power plants in the United States, perched on the edge of the nation’s largest coal mine, was scheduled to close in 2027. But the plant’s operator recently canceled the retirement of ...

BEIJING, Sept 24 (Reuters) - A fire at Chinese miner Luan Group's coal washing plant has been brought under control, China Youth Daily reported on its microblog, citing a source with the company. A ...

When John Holbrook first started working as a pipefitter in the early 1990s, jobs were easy to come by in his corner of northeastern Kentucky. A giant iron and steel mill routinely needed maintenance ...