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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, ...
Above the deck on the fourth floor of Unit 3 inside Consumer Energy’s J.H. Campbell power plant, a sign proclaims the electricity flowing from the coal-fired beast is a “KEY to Michigan’s ...
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 ...
The last time the power plant ran at capacity was in 2005, when coal was the dominant source of electricity in this country. Last year, the plant ran only 20% of the time as politics and ...
that have blocked new plants from the US to Europe to Africa. Meanwhile, new governmental carbon reduction targets and the plunging costs of renewable power have shifted the economic and political ...
The only operational unit of Delaware’s sole coal-fired power plant will shut down in February, nearly two years ahead of schedule. Indian River Unit 4 near Dagsboro originally was scheduled to ...