Bill in the works could increase Indiana's reliance on coal, gas
1:45. Indiana has taken small steps toward breaking its heavy reliance on coal and natural gas, but some worry a new bill will slow that transition and keep emission-spewing fossil fuels around ...
Delivery to consumers
The process of delivering electricity. Power plants generate electricity that is delivered to customers through transmission and distribution power lines. High-voltage transmission lines, such as those that hang between tall metal towers, carry electricity over long distances to meet customer needs. Higher voltage electricity is more efficient ...
U.S. Energy Information Administration
The share of coal-fired generation decreased from 23% in 2021 to 20% in 2022 as a number of coal-fired power plants retired and the remaining plants were …
New Mexico regulators reject utility's effort to recoup some
FILE - The Four Corners Power Plant in Waterflow, N.M., near the San Juan River in northwestern New Mexico, is viewed in April 2006. Regulators have rejected an effort by New Mexico's largest electric utility to recoup from customers millions of dollars of investments made in a coal-fired power plant in the northwestern corner of the state, …
CenterPoint Energy's Electric System
CenterPoint Energy's power plants in Posey County, Ind., and Warrick County, Ind., provide safe, reliable power to 142,000 customers in southwestern Indiana. Over the past decade, these local plants have become among the cleanest coal-fired generation units in the Midwest thanks to $500 million in emissions control equipment.
EIA expects solar to lead U.S. power generation growth as coal …
The cost for U.S. electric power generation from coal is set to decline to $2.40 per million British thermal units by December 2025, from $2.53 million Btus in January …
Tennessee Valley Authority Chooses Gas, Undermining Biden's …
Transmission lines leading from a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired power plant in West Paducah, Ky. The T.V.A. plans to invest in natural gas to replace its aging power plants that run on coal.
Wyoming is the No. 1 US coal producer, but its largest
The rules will go into effect July 1, 2021, and will allow non-utilities to purchase otherwise retiring coal fired power plants and sell energy to industrial …
As Coal Retires, a Montana Bill and a South Dakota Utility Push to Keep
Many of the plant's six utility owners serve customers in Washington and Oregon and are looking to move away from coal altogether. They've prepped for parts of the plant to close as early as 2022.
The US's third-largest utility will shut down 55% of its …
Alabama Power, which is also a subsidiary of Southern, plans to remove roughly 3,000 MW of coal, including four units at Plant Gaston near Wilsonville, Alabama, and one at Plant Barry in Bucks ...
OG&E announces plan to purchase power plants; customers to …
20 Dec, 2018, 17:19 ET. OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Oklahoma Gas & Electric, the utility subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE: OGE ), announced today that, pending regulatory ...
Kentucky Leads The Country In 2020 Coal Retirements
Two of this year's largest coal-fired power plant retirements in the U.S. are happening in Kentucky. ... So new power generation is likely to come online as older plants retire and as customers begin demanding cleaner sources of energy. ... Owensboro will continue to purchase coal power from Big Rivers through 2026, ...
Use of energy in industry
Among manufacturers, the chemicals, petroleum and coal products, and primary metals subsectors are the main consumers of nonfuel energy/feedstocks. In 2018, chemical manufacturers accounted for about 70% of total nonfuel energy feedstocks use by manufacturing and for 22% of total U.S. manufacturing sector fuel and nonfuel …
Renewables on pace to overtake coal as top power source by …
Markets today. Renewables are set to overtake coal as the largest source of power generation globally by 2025, an international energy think tank said, especially as …
In Southeast Asia, decades-long deals stymie shift away from coal
GNPower Dinginin is one of the Philippines's newest and biggest coal-fired power plants. Located in Bataan province on the island of Luzon, the $1.7bn facility began construction in 2016 before ...
Old plants, new ideas: Who might buy a retired coal …
It allows for a $35-per-metric-ton tax credit for CO2 captured and sequestered via enhanced oil recovery. To qualify, a project must commence construction before January 1, 2024. "The 45Q tax credit is …
How Arizona Public Service's four corners plant has hurt customers
The BNEF report finds that "a 100-megawatt solar farm that goes into service in Arizona in 2021, coupled with a 25-megawatt storage system with four hours of capacity, will be able to provide power for $36 a megawatt-hour. That's well below the $47 price from a new combined-cycle gas plant.".
West ia tests the state's coal future for electricity
West ia is at an impasse over how much to run some of its largest coal-fired power plants, with implications for carbon …
A New Frontier for Nuclear: Partnering With Utilities …
Navin added that "many of the functions needed to run a new nuclear plant have direct analogs in coal plants." And making do with the alternative -- building at a site without any history of power sector …
Indonesia has a deal to get off coal. It's still building coal plants
It's still building coal plants The U.S. helped broker a $20 billion deal to transition Indonesia to renewables from coal. International observers are excited, but inside Indonesia, there are ...
A coal plant fights to stay open. It could enrich Manchin
The power plant that buys coal from Sen. Joe Manchin's company is fighting to stay open by generating electricity for cryptocurrency mining after being on the brink of economic collapse for years.
Unlocking Coal Contracts
Pathways to decarbonizing long-term coal power purchase agreements. A rapid global transition from coal to clean power is critical for strong economic growth and ambitious …
Minnesota Electric Cooperatives and Out-of-State Coal Plants
Minnesota's electricity generation mix is shifting away from coal. Due to pressure from low natural gas prices and competitive costs for wind and solar power, coal plants are increasingly uneconomic options. In recent years, nearly 1,000 megawatts (MW) of coal generating capacity has been retired in Minnesota, about 20 percent of the state ...
Buy coal-fired power plants, shut them down and reap cost-plus …
Avangrid's purchase of New Mexico's PNM Resources at the end of 2020, was subject to PNM'S getting out of coal contracts seven years earlier than planned. The unattractive end of coal plant ...
Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
The cost of coal that the power plant burns makes up about 40% of total costs. 30 This means that for all non-renewable power plants which have these fuel costs there is a hard lower bound to how much the cost of their electricity can possibly decrease. Even if the price for constructing the power plant would decline, the price of the fuel ...
Here's what the early closure of JH Campbell Power Plant means …
HBPW and nine other public utilities bought stakes in Unit 3 of the coal-fired power plant in 1979 through the Michigan Public Power Agency, a joint action agency that facilitates power buys for ...
Texas' Electricity Resources
Early power plants produced electricity primarily from coal, steam or hydroelectric energy. Today, Texas still generates electricity from some of these traditional sources but increasingly relies on natural gas as well as renewable resources, primarily wind. According to ERCOT, nearly half of Texas' electricity was generated by natural gas ...
West ia effort to save Pleasants coal plant collides with
West ia's unbending support for the coal-fired Pleasants Power Station is about to cost ratepayers again.. State regulators this week effectively approved a $3 million monthly rate increase for up to 12 months, requested by two of the state's regulated utilities as they continue to consider purchasing the 43-year-old plant—one they didn't …
Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and Energy Purchase Agreements …
A Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) secures the payment stream for a Build-Own Transfer (BOT) or concession project for an independent power plant (IPP). It is between the purchaser "offtaker" (often a state-owned electricity utility) and a privately owned power producer. The PPA outlined here is not appropriate for electricity sold on …