Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the U.S., are becoming more valuable now that the ...

The Texas Energy Fund, meant to help companies build gas-fired power plants for the ERCOT grid, has been rocked by fraud ...

EnergySolutions, the state of Utah and the Intermountain Power Agency entered into an agreement to pursue the possibility of ...

Two more natural gas power plant projects have been denied loans from Texas’ $5 billion program meant to attract more ...

What was once Pennsylvania’s biggest coal-fired power plant is being turned into a $10 billion natural gas-powered data center campus designed to capitalize on Big Tech's fast-growing energy demands.

Kansas Corporation Commission staff on Tuesday testified about the need to expand Evergy’s power generation capabilities and ...

The cost of building gas power plants has also soared — so much so that in some parts of the country, solar panels and batteries are likely to be cheaper, energy executives and consultants said. By ...

FILE - The smokestacks of the former coal-fired Homer City Generating Station crumble in a planned demolition to make way for a new natural gas-fired power plant in Homer City, Pa., March 22, 2025.

The cost of building gas power plants has also soared — so much so that in some parts of the country, solar panels and batteries are likely to be cheaper, energy executives and consultants said.

So you want a new gas power plant? Better start waiting. As an ongoing policy experiment in Texas shows, even a helping hand from the state can’t get steel in the ground ahead of schedule.

Texas-based WM recently began tapping two of those big landfills to harness what lies beneath: gas on a big scale.