Coal Power Plant Operations & Maintenance

Coal power plant news covering running, operating and maintaining a coal-fired power plant.

Coal Plant O&M News

Coal-fired power plant may be converted to natural gas

02/07/2012 The 745 MW Salem Harbor Power Station in Massachusetts could soon be con...

EIA: Power sector's coal consumption to fall by 2% in 2012

02/07/2012 Coal consumption in the U.S. power sector fell by 4 percent in 2011 and ...

Coal-fired project needs environmental review

02/01/2012 A judge ruled that a $2.8 billion, 895 MW coal-fired power plant cannot ...

A list of possible coal closures in the U.S.

01/05/2012 This list is featured in the January 2012 issue of Power Engineering mag...

AES unit files for bankruptcy

01/03/2012 AES Eastern Energy, a subsidiary of AES Corp., filed for Chapter 11 bank...

Luminant given OK to close two coal-fired units

12/20/2011 The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) told Luminant, a unit ...

Coal-fired power plant outage extended

12/02/2011 TransAlta Corp. has announced the expected impact of an extended outage ...

Two more coal-fired power units to be shut down in Ontario

12/01/2011 The Ontario government said on Dec. 1 that it is permanently shutting do...

Coal-fired power plant down for unplanned maintenance

11/16/2011 Capital Power Corp. said it expects the 495 MW Unit 3 at Genesee coal-fi...