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Coal plants have been closing at a fast rate since 2010 (290 plants closed from 2010 to May 2019; this was 40% of the US's coal generating capacity) due to competition from other generating sources, primarily cheaper and cleaner natural gas (a result of the fracking boom), which has replaced so many coal plants that natural gas now accounts for ...
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on greenhouse gas emissions ...
To become coal-free by 2032, WEC also will shut down Columbia Energy Center near Portage, jointly owned by WPS, Alliant and Madison Gas and Electric Co., in 2026, and a coal-burning unit at the ...
The Biden administration on Thursday proposed an end to new coal leasing from federal reserves in the most productive coal mining region in the U.S. as officials seek to limit climate-changing ...
The two identical coal-fired generating units have a combined capacity of 1,340 MW. Both units started up for commercial operation in August 1971. (Bonneville Power Administration 1980 EIS) In following the 2011 agreement to close the plant, the first boiler was shut down in 2020 with the second unit planned for closure in 2025.
In early 2017, the plant filed for bankruptcy protection. [8] In early 2022 the facility's owners announced that they were considering deactivating some of its units. [9] The owners initially decided to continue operation, [10] but on April 3, 2023 Homer City Generation announced a decision to shut down the power plant and be offline by June 2 ...
As it prepares to end the use of coal at its Oak Creek Power Plant, We Energies is simultaneously laying plans to build a $1.2 billion natural gas plant on the 1,000-acre Lake Michigan shoreline ...
On February 1, 2020, the last coal-fired unit at Paradise Fossil Plant was shut down after 50 years of operation. [13] On November 10, 2022, the TVA demolished the cooling towers of all three retired coal-firing units by controlled implosion. [14] [15] [16] TVA plans to install a solar power farm in place of the demolished cooling towers. [17]