Dennis Wamsted

The owners of the Pleasants coal-fired generating station on the Ohio River, continue to look for a buyer despite the plant’s checkered financial history and an increasingly uncompetitive market for coal-fired generation.

The effects of the Inflation Reduction Act are already being considered by utilities

A Nevada geothermal proposal has the potential to be a less expensive, more certain option for a Utah utility than an unproven small modular reactor (SMR) with rising costs

The Biden administration’s clean energy plan—80 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035—can seem like a daunting target. But there are templates for that transition, in Texas and the formerly coal-dominated Southeast.

Forced Outages During a December Freeze Underscore Serious Performance Problems Facing Coal- and Gas-Fired Electric Generators

March 9, 2023 (IEEFA)—An Arctic blast that hit the central and eastern United States in late December once again highlighted that coal- and gas-fired electric generators are not nearly as reliable as their proponents claim. A report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) shows how forced outages during extreme weather underscore performance problems in the fossil fuel sector.

The changing regional power environment is likely to shift the outlook for pension funds and other institutional investors with holdings in private equity firms by lowering annual returns, raising investment risks, or both.

The announcement on March 27 that New England’s last operating coal plant, Merrimack, will retire by 2028 is a significant milestone in the region’s energy transition.

State regulators and potential project investors need to scrutinize assertions that hydrogen gas will be widely used in methane-fired turbines.