SPP work group mulls multi-day market to boost coal dispatch Platts has the details from a market work group meeting held via conference call this week, part of a continuing discussion in the SPP market about how to best compensate baseload generation as renewables and natural gas take up a larger share of the power … Continue reading SPP work group mulls multi-day market to boost coal dispatch
In play for coal support, Exelon loses key backers of energy bill Exelon’s energy bill has landed at last, containing ratepayer-financed benefits for virtually every energy interest in Illinois, including now Dynegy’s large but financially ailing coal-fired fleet of plants downstate. So why are so few happy? Because some interests getting goodies don’t want certain … Continue reading In play for coal support, #Exelon loses key backers of energy bill
SPP work group mulls multi-day market to boost coal dispatch Platts has the details from a market work group meeting held via conference call this week, part of a continuing discussion in the SPP market about how to best compensate baseload generation as renewables and natural gas take up a larger share of the power … Continue reading SPP work group mulls multi-day market to boost coal dispatch
Coal-fire power plants have served their purpose One of the points we touched on a few weeks ago when we published a report on the declining role of coal-fired electricity plants in Texas is that they aren’t nearly the baseload workhorses they used to be. Our report, “Fundamental Changes in Energy Markets Are Undermining the … Continue reading Coal – fire power plants have served their purpose
The Inevitable Decline Of U.S. Coal Back in the “good old days” when Tony Blair was leading the UK’s “New” Labor Party, he had to keep coal miners — the backbone of the old Labor Party–happy while ostensibly not interfering with the market. Be-ing New Labor means never interfering with the wisdom of the market. … Continue reading The Inevitable Decline Of U.S. Coal
Xcel To Shut Down Becker Energy Plant The state’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases will be shutting down, a move that’s part of Xcel Energy’s effort to find more renewable energy alternatives. The idea to shut down the plant in Becker, Minn. has been in the works for two years. Now, the Public Utilities Commission … Continue reading #Xcel To Shut Down #Becker Energy Plant
IEEFA: 40% of Texas coal generation at risk for retirement Coal is generating less power and receiving less revenue for what it does produce, putting about a third of the state’s plants at risk of closure according to a new report. According to the report, more than a half dozen plants are at risk, including … Continue reading IEEFA: 40% of Texas coal generation at risk for retirement
Competition from wind and solar affects TX coal-fired electricity industry The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis published a research report describing how the coal-fired electricity industry in Texas is in decline and unlikely to recover in the face of rising competition from other energy sources. The report—“The Beginning of the End: Fundamental Changes … Continue reading Competition from wind and solar affects TX coal – fired electricity industry
NIPSCO mulling retirement of Bailly coal fired units in 2018 As part of its regular electric supply planning process, the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO) has announced that its long-term supply options may lead to the retirement of four of the company’s coal-fired electric generation units–including those at the Bailly Generating Station–over the next … Continue reading NIPSCO mulling retirement of #Bailly coal fired units in 2018
US EIA: Natural Gas CO2 Emissions are Exceeding Coal Emissions For the first time since 1972, energy-associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal are dropping below natural gas CO2 emissions. The US Energy Information Agency’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook reports that energy-related CO2 emissions from natural gas are expected to be 10 percent higher than … Continue reading US EIA: Natural Gas CO2 Emissions are Exceeding Coal Emissions
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