The Department of Energy extended an order that will continue to keep Washington’s last remaining coal-fired plant open past its long-scheduled retirement at the end of 2025.

Washington’s attorney general and a coalition of public interest organizations filed separate lawsuits to overturn the Department of Energy’s order requiring TransAlta to continue operating the state’s last coal-fired plant beyond its scheduled retirement.

The EPA administrator said his agency’s proposed CO2 emission standards for power plants target “the most egregious sources” without compromising reliability.

Newly enacted legislation could make it more difficult for Kentucky regulators to approve retirements of fossil fuel generators or replace them with renewables.

Xcel Energy said that it will cease to deal in coal nationwide by 2030 with the accelerated retirement of a Texas coal plant.

State regulatory staff and MISO executives found no easy answers to solve a burgeoning reliability crisis after converging for a resource adequacy summit.

Two Washington agencies said they reached a “major milestone” in nailing down new rules to implement the state’s 2019 Clean Energy Transformation Act.

Officials from the departments of Energy and Defense expressed their concerns about the growing threats to the grid at a D.C. forum.