A South Texas electric cooperative is converting its heavily polluting coal-fired power plant and mines to a solar and battery facility. San Miguel Electric Cooperative, in Christine in Atascosa ...

(Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) There are thousands of coal-fired power stations around the world, and as the world shifts to renewable energy, many will be switched off and decommissioned.

Vistra Corp. now plans to operate a 1,185-megawatt coal-fired power plant in southwestern Illinois through 2027 instead of ...

China's thermal power generation, primarily from coal, increased in 2024 despite growth in renewable energy, due to factors ...

U.S. power producers have raised total generation to new highs in 2024, fuelled mainly by record natural gas-fired output ...

Global exports and use of thermal coal will reach all-time highs in 2024, despite the record roll-out of renewable energy generation capacity across all major continents.

A transformer explosion at Eskom’s coal-fired 3.6-GW Matla Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on Dec. 12 injured nine ...

The project’s challenges cap a year in which there have been few signs of progress for U.S. coal-fired power plants whose owners are studying retrofits that would involve carbon capture systems. This ...

South Africa is restructuring its power sector and signed the Electricity Regulation Amendment Act in August to introduce ...

“Based on the structural improvements in the generation performance of the coal-fired fleet, week by week Eskom is increasingly able to absorb shocks to the system, even though the generation ...