PNM: No interest in keeping San Juan coal plant open
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): PNM Resources Inc. officials said their company firmly intends to close the coal-fired San Juan plant in 2022 and expressed confidence the New Mexico Legislature...
View ArticlePhilippine utilities boost gas and renewables’ share in energy mix
Asian Power: The race to build a groundbreaking liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Philippines is heating up as the country faces the anticipated drop in production at the Malampaya gas field...
View ArticleIEEFA Op-ed: Pakistan’s energy pathway under the spotlight
With Chinese thermal coal imports set to go into decline, coal exporters are depending on countries like Pakistan to pick up the slack. Pakistan is expanding its electricity generation capability with...
View ArticleU.S. solar outlook surges despite tariffs
Greentech Media: Projections for utility-scale solar growth from 2020 to 2022 now exceed forecasts drafted before the Trump administration’s announcement of Section 201 tariffs, according to new...
View ArticleMajor Texas coal generator concedes ‘coal is on its way out’
Yahoo Finance: The latest sign that coal is losing its sway in the U.S. power market: Vistra Energy Corp. — one of Texas’s largest power generators and coal plant owners — says that fossil fuel’s days...
View ArticleFlorida Power & Light proposes largest community solar program in U.S.
Utility Dive: Florida Power & Light (FPL) filed plans for what would be the largest community solar project in the country to state regulators on Wednesday. FPL’s SolarTogether project would...
View ArticleColorado legislator pushes bill to pave the way for early coal plant closures
Greentech Media: Increasingly affordable wind and solar power are rendering an ever-larger share of the United States’ existing thermal power plants uneconomic. Aging coal-fired power plants are...
View ArticleDominion sets closure date for Chesterfield coal units
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Dominion Energy is planning to permanently retire 10 of its energy-producing power plant units — most of which were built to burn coal — by the end of the month. A Dominion...
View ArticleSettlement paves way for Consumers Energy coal phase-out in Michigan
Energy News Network: Consumers Energy has reached an agreement with a broad coalition of advocates on the utility’s long-term clean energy transition, weeks after the plan was in jeopardy due to...
View ArticleIEEFA report: Fast-emerging opportunity in Navajo-Hopi Transition Impact...
March 28, 2019 (IEEFA Arizona) — A research brief published today by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and lead author Tony Skrelunas, Navajo, MBA, identifies...
View ArticleNavigant: Solar plus storage turning variable green power into a dispatchable...
Utility Dive: Storage-plus-renewable energy projects, in particular solar, are expected to play an important role as electric utilities develop their strategies for the gird of the future. The risk and...
View ArticleUtility shuts down Presque Isle coal plant in Michigan
WLUC: It’s the beginning of the end for the Presque Isle Power Plant, as it’s powered down for the final time Sunday. At 9 am, they started shutting off different levels of the power plant. WEC Energy...
View ArticleTVA’s coal generation now just 20% of total, down from 60% in 2005
Reuters: The chief executive of the Tennessee Valley Authority said on Tuesday the U.S.-owned power generator expects to get more than 60 percent of its energy from non-carbon-emitting sources by 2020,...
View ArticleUtility executives push transition from coal to cleaner energy sources
E&E News: Patti Poppe used to drive around with an “I ‘heart’ COAL” bumper sticker, but now the CEO of Michigan-based CMS Energy Corp. is eager to talk about phasing out the fossil fuel. “There’s...
View ArticleIEEFA U.S.: The TVA’s new resource-development plan underscores coal’s...
The transition away from coal by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), one of the nation’s largest electricity generators, has been swift. Since 2007, the utility has retired thousands of megawatts of...
View ArticleNews alert: IEEFA finance director Tom Sanzillo to testify at Congressional...
On Tuesday April 9th, IEEFA finance director Tom Sanzillo will testify before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources on “The Status of the Rebuilding and Privatization of the Puerto Rico...
View ArticleIEEFA op-ed: Privatizing Puerto Rico’s electric utility (PREPA) opens door to...
On Tuesday April 9th, at a hearing on rebuilding and privatizing Puerto Rico’s electrical system, I will tell the House Committee on Natural Resources why the current privatization plans are likely to...
View ArticleIEEFA report: Kit Carson electric co-op gains from breakup with coal-centric...
April 9, 2019 (IEEFA New Mexico) — Kit Carson, a small New Mexico power co-op has gained from its breakup with a larger and increasingly anachronistic power-generation group, according to a report...
View ArticleAWEA sees ‘record amount’ of new wind capacity coming online in the next...
RTO Insider: U.S. wind capacity grew another 8% last year, helping the industry support a record 114,000 jobs, more than 500 domestic factories and more than $1 billion a year in revenue for states and...
View ArticleEIA: U.S. coal production expected to fall by 72 million tons in 2019
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): The federal government’s short-term outlook on energy once again trimmed expectations for future coal production from the U.S. U.S. coal production decreased by...
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