Coal in the News

17Mar

Kentuckians Are Paying a High Price for Closing Coal-Fired Power Plants

Via RealClearEnergy:Between 2011 and 2022, residential customers of Kentucky Power saw their electric bills increase by 78 percent – from 9 cents per kilowatt hour to 16 cents per kilowatt hour. This increase coincided with the shutdown of the company’s Big Sandy coal-fired power plant and its conversion to natural gas. Meanwhile, residential customers of […]
17Mar

Why coal is necessary

Via The Register-Herald: As the nation’s transition to renewable energy gains speed, with the rapid deployment of wind and solar power and grid-scale batteries, a misguided idea is taking hold. There’s no longer any need for coal generation and coal mining in the United States. There are major benefits from electricity produced at coal plants […]
09Mar

Why Coal Is Necessary

Via DC Journal: As the nation’s transition to renewable energy gains speed, with the rapid deployment of wind and solar power and grid-scale batteries, a misguided idea is taking hold. There’s no longer any need for coal generation and coal mining in the United States. There are major benefits from electricity produced at coal plants and mining. Coal will […]
22Feb

The start of a U.S. power grid crisis?

Via The Pottstown Mercury: First it was California. Then Texas. Now it’s much of the nation. America’s electric grid — and its reliable supply of power — are in trouble. It once seemed unthinkable but we’re approaching a time when blackouts could become a regular occurrence in the United States. According to the North American […]
11Jan

We Are Creating Our Own Electricity Crisis

Via DC Journal: There’s growing alarm that the top-down push for America to transition to renewable energy is surgically dismantling our existing electrical grid and its capacity to provide reliable power when needed. Blackouts in California and Texas weren’t anomalies. As one energy regulator warned, there should have been a national wakeup call for a system […]
30Nov

Possible rail strike could send shockwaves through energy industry

Via The Hill: A strike by U.S. railroad workers could have dramatic impacts on energy delivery, with industry groups warning of logistical snarls and price increases for consumers. The potential strike — which Congress and President Biden are scrambling to avert — would predominantly affect commodities that can’t be transported by pipelines, such as coal and ethanol.  […]
08Nov

A costly energy crunch is coming to the US this winter

Via The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Americans know that inflation has hit hard. Food prices alone are up 10% this year. And energy costs are now a key problem — thanks to OPEC and Russia manipulating oil prices even as natural gas prices surge. To put it bluntly, the news isn’t good. Americans are going to […]
27Oct

U.S. faces costly energy crunch this winter

Via The Pottstown Mercury: Americans know that inflation has hit hard. Food prices alone are up 10 percent this year. And energy costs are now a key problem — thanks to OPEC and Russia manipulating oil prices even as natural gas prices surge. To put it bluntly, the news isn’t good. Americans are going to […]
26Oct

Regulatory Intransigence

What changes over the course of four years? Not much if you compare President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to its predecessor from the Obama era. Team Biden came into office determined to pick up right where the Obama EPA had left off, hellbent on using every tool available to dismantle the domestic coal fleet. […]