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The Tennessean: A 600-foot-tall smokestack and other equipment at Tennessee’s oldest coal-fired power plant was demolished to make way for lower-emission energy technology on Saturday morning. The Tennessee Valley Authority imploded the dormant exhaust equipment and ten boilers at the former Johnsonville Fossil Plant. The coal plant operated from 1951 to 2017 in New Johnsonville. […]
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Consumers Energy, TVA among utilities planning full exits from coal
There is an inverse S-curve developing in the U.S. coal generation sector, with announced plant retirements expanding rapidly as utilities and independent power producers adjust to the influx of cleaner and cheaper wind, solar and battery storage resources disrupting the electric system. IEEFA data shows that just since March, the generating capacity of coal plants […]
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S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): A nationwide clean power standard requiring 80% of U.S. electricity to come from carbon dioxide-free sources by 2030 would save hundreds of thousands of lives and sharply improve air quality while combatting climate change, according to a new study released July 12. The analysis, which the authors claimed was the […]
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Memphis Commercial Appeal: The company planning to build the Byhalia Connection pipeline on Friday announced that it is abandoning the project, bringing a sudden end to one of the biggest environmental controversies in recent Memphis history. The project, which would have put a crude oil pipeline through mostly Black South Memphis neighborhoods, sparked a complex […]
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Chattanooga Times Free Press: When the Kingston Fossil Plant began power generation for the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1955, it was the largest coal-burning power plant in the world — a distinction it held for more than a decade. But after 66 years of electricity generation — and the nation’s worst coal ash spill at […]
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S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Amazon.com Inc. announced a new wave of contracts to buy electricity from 14 new renewable energy projects in the U.S., Canada, Finland and Spain in a bid to advance its goal to power 100% of the company’s activities with renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of its original target […]
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Wall Street Journal ($): A growing fight is unfolding across the U.S. as cities consider phasing out natural gas for home cooking and heating, citing concerns about climate change, and states push back against these bans. Major cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Denver and New York have either enacted or proposed measures to ban or […]
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S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): The Tennessee Valley Authority is eyeing small modular nuclear reactors as replacement options for four remaining coal plants projected to reach the end of their useful lives by 2035. TVA spokesman Scott Brooks confirmed May 4 that the federal wholesale power authority assumes the 1,242-MW Shawnee, 2,522-MW Cumberland, 988-MW Gallatin […]
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Chattanooga Times Free Press: The Tennessee Valley Authority, which once got nearly two thirds of its power by burning coal, is preparing plans to phase out the last of its aging fleet of coal power plants within the next decade and a half and turn to more natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy sources like […]
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S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): The COVID-19 pandemic proved to be a significant disruption for many corners of the global energy industry, but the corporate renewables market plowed ahead as if nothing had happened. S&P Global Market Intelligence tracked over 20,000 MW of new corporate wind and solar capacity throughout the year, making 2020 the […]
IEEFA report: Coal-fired power generation collapsing across Southeast U.S., longtime bastion of the industry
Decade-long influx of cheap gas started regional transition; solar expected to finish itOct. 1, 2019 (IEEFA U.S.) – Abundant gas supplies have transformed the electricity-generation sector in the traditionally coal-dominated Southeast U.S. Planned new solar construction in the region will add momentum to the energy transition and likely lead to the zeroing out of all coal generation in a number of states in the near future, finds […]