Power4Georgians, a consortium of electric membership cooperatives sponsoring the 850 MW coal-fired Plant Washington power plant in Georgia, announced Monday they would be restructuring and would not hold an ownership stake in the plant.

Mississippi Power asked state regulators for an additional $600 million to build the Kemper County integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant, bringing the cost up to $3.42 billion.

A coalition of states and other government entities, led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, has sent of a letter of intent to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to finalize the New Source Performance Standard for new power plants.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has delayed finalizing its New Source Performance Standard regulations for new power plants, which many people have said would have ended the construction of new coal-fired power plants in the U.S.

SPX Corp said it’s joint venture with Shanghai Electric Group Co. Ltd. received $80 million in new orders for dry cooling systems for four power plants in China.

The majority of new power generation in the U.S. in 2013 is being created by renewable power sources.

Developers of a planned 850 MW coal-fired plant outside Sandersville, Ga. said they are in a “dead sprint” to begin construction of the facility by April 13.

Four Democratic senators have sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging the president’s administration to amend the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new source performance standard regulations.

The Obama administration in leaning toward revising a rule that would regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.

The Babcock & Wilcox Co. announced that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, signed a contract with FutureGen Industrial Alliance to begin the next phase of the 167 MW FutureGen 2.0 carbon capture and storage project in Illinois.

Peabody Energy said it was subpoenaed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seeking information and documents having to do with the development of the 1,600 MW Prairie State coal-fired power plant in Illinois.

Thailand is targeting the development of more coal-fired power plants as it struggles to meet surging demand for electricity.

The Sandy Creek coal-fired power plant is being fired up intermittently for testing purposes and will go online full-time in April.

Alstom Bharat Forge Power Ltd. will be supplying three units of 660 MW supercritical coal turbine islands to Nabinagar Power Generating Co. Pvt Ltd.

Mississippi Power has retired the 67.5 MW Plant Eaton in Petal, Miss.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced the beginning of Phase II of project development for a carbon capture and storage project in Illinois.

Mississippi Power reached a settlement Jan. 24 with the state Public Service Commission that will allow the utility to request a rate recovery of financing costs for the Kemper County integrated gasification combined-cycle power plant.

Plans to construct a coal-fueled power plant on the Texas gulf coast have been halted, according to the chief executive officer of the company financing the project.

The first two of four particulate control devices (PCDs) are traveling approximately 70 miles to the site of the 582 MW Kemper County integrated gasification combined-cycle power plant in Mississippi.