For the first time, renewable energy has overtaken coal as the primary source of electricity around the world, a new report says, indicating a shift in the global reliance on environmentally harmful ...

On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Administration released its latest data on how the US generated electricity during the first six months of 2025. The data suggests the notable surge in power use ...

Electricity bills are climbing almost everywhere, and the reasons have little to do with ideology. Three forces are driving prices higher: massive new utility spending on infrastructure, rising ...

Ireland is no longer burning coal to produce electricity after the country’s last coal-fired unit was converted to use heavy fuel oil. ESB, the plant’s operator, on June 20 issued a notice that the ...

A mining and processing business in California is replacing one coal plant but says another could stay online for many years. Searles Valley Minerals, a mining and processing plant in Trona, Calif., ...

The largest coal-fired power plant in the West — one of the biggest climate polluters in the nation — could close later this year, a major symbolic blow to the future of coal as the backbone of ...

ISTANBUL, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Turkey is set to launch an incentive programme on electricity purchase guarantees for power plants using locally produced coal, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on ...

Solar power has quietly pulled ahead of coal and gas in Germany’s electricity mix, even though the country is better known ...

Electricity bills are climbing almost everywhere, and the reasons have little to do with ideology. Three forces are driving prices higher: massive new utility spending on infrastructure, rising ...