Winter Storm Fern has caused hundreds of thousands of power outages, though the electric grid has remained stable in part due to coal power plants boosting supply.

America's much-derided and downsized coal power industry proved to still be a crucial factor for maintaining grid reliability ...

Coal has historically been the largest source of global electricity generation. For the first half of the 20th century, more than half of the world’s electricity came from coal power plants. Until the ...

Coal will continue to play a central role in India’s energy mix as the country works towards tripling its per capita energy ...

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2015 file photo, a plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. global health commission organized by the prestigious British medical journal ...

China is nearly single-handedly driving global coal power additions and consumption, commissioning 86% of new capacity ...

Comanche Power Plant, owned by Xcel energy photographed frome the Colorado State University Pueblo Campus in 2021. (Alex Edwards, The Gazette) The Comanche Power Plant in Pueblo will continue to ...