President Trump has signed orders to keep ageing coal plants online, despite utilities warning of high operating costs. Energy experts argue that the Department of Energy’s blackout risk report ...

8 December 2004 – Malaysia, which has been largely dependent on natural gas to generate electricity, will switch to coal more as it is much cheaper and this will also reduce its reliance on the ...

For the first time, renewable energy has overtaken coal as the primary source of electricity around the world, a new report says, indicating a shift in the global reliance on environmentally harmful ...

Coal was used to generate over half of America’s electricity a generation ago. That has dropped to 16%. As Trump cuts into ...

California is about to make history. Starting next month, the state will stop using coal as a source of electricity. This marks the end of a long journey to remove one of the dirtiest fuels from ...

It’s the first time sources like wind and solar generated more power than coal over a six-month period. Renewable sources of energy generated more electricity globally than coal during the first half ...

This mismatch is causing increasing strain. In some regions coal contracts lock out cheaper renewables, forcing the renewable ...

Why First Energy Is Building Gas, Not Coal First Energy last week announced plans to build a new natural gas–fired power plant at a yet-to-be-determined location in West Virginia. Newsman Mike Nolting ...