Along with trying to ramp up development of new nuclear and natural-gas power plants, the administration’s biggest pivot from ...

President Trump has signed orders to keep ageing coal plants online, despite utilities warning of high operating costs. Energy experts argue that the Department of Energy’s blackout risk report ...

The United States is seeing a surprising energy shift. Many data centers, the buildings that power the internet and artificial intelligence (AI), are increasingly using coal to produce electricity.

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

After decades of operation, Merrimack Station’s closure marks the region’s final exit from coal—and the start of a new ...

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 computing and ...

As soon as the 2018-2019 shutdown began, coal-fired power plants started emitting more particulate matter pollution. And when ...

Even as coal power continues its steady decline in the United States, more than 100 plants still have no retirement plans — a gap large enough to derail ...

Xcel Energy’s chronically troubled coal plant Comanche 3 has been out of service since mid-August. The plant, scheduled for retirement by the end of 2030, sustained damage during a ...

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 computing and ...