/tags/coal-plants Coal Plants en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:25:40 GMT /energy-environment/2024-02-15/austin-energys-plan-to-build-a-power-plant-faces-opposition-from-oversight-board Austin Energy says building a new natural gas plant will help meet Austin's energy needs. Members of a citizen oversight group say the utility is shirking its duty to reduce emissions and city climate goals. Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:25:40 GMT /energy-environment/2024-02-15/austin-energys-plan-to-build-a-power-plant-faces-opposition-from-oversight-board Elisabeth Jimenez /texas/2019-07-15/rockdale-texas-was-counting-on-cryptocurrency-mining-but-then-bitcoin-winter-set-in From Texas Standard:Rockdale, Texas, an hour outside of Austin, was depending on a company called Bitmain � a Bitcoin “mining� company � to bring new jobs� Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:07:08 GMT /texas/2019-07-15/rockdale-texas-was-counting-on-cryptocurrency-mining-but-then-bitcoin-winter-set-in Hayden Baggett /energy-environment/2018-07-25/the-ac-stayed-on-3-takeaways-from-texas-scorching-heat-wave Take a rapidly growing state, add a scorching heat wave, and you have a recipe for historically high electricity use. So it was that Texas broke the� Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:01:00 GMT /energy-environment/2018-07-25/the-ac-stayed-on-3-takeaways-from-texas-scorching-heat-wave Mose Buchele /energy-environment/2018-06-07/what-would-trumps-coal-bailout-look-like-in-texas Energy Secretary Rick Perry said this week that the Department of Energy is working on a plan to subsidize coal and nuclear power in the name of national� Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:09:00 GMT /energy-environment/2018-06-07/what-would-trumps-coal-bailout-look-like-in-texas Mose Buchele /energy-environment/2018-06-04/in-austin-energy-secretary-perry-pushes-for-coal-and-nuclear-bailout Energy Secretary Rick Perry spoke in Austin today about a new Department of Energy plan to bail out failing coal and nuclear power plants in the name of� Mon, 04 Jun 2018 20:22:49 GMT /energy-environment/2018-06-04/in-austin-energy-secretary-perry-pushes-for-coal-and-nuclear-bailout Mose Buchele /energy-environment/2018-01-12/perrys-plan-to-prop-up-nuclear-coal-power-fails-as-another-texas-coal-plant-closes Texas' energy industry is in flux.The state's seen recent closures of three coal-powered power plants, as the state market shifts toward renewable sources� Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:32:04 GMT /energy-environment/2018-01-12/perrys-plan-to-prop-up-nuclear-coal-power-fails-as-another-texas-coal-plant-closes KUT Staff /energy-environment/2017-11-30/coal-plant-closures-could-raise-electricity-rates-in-austin-or-maybe-not The announcement that three coal power plants in Texas plan to close next year is likely good news for the environment, but bad news for the people who� Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:01:00 GMT /energy-environment/2017-11-30/coal-plant-closures-could-raise-electricity-rates-in-austin-or-maybe-not Mose Buchele /energy-environment/2017-11-15/despite-presidential-promises-a-texas-town-looks-at-life-after-coal News that the Sandow Power Plant outside Rockdale was closing broke on Friday the 13th.“You would think you could put off till Monday to make that� Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:02:00 GMT /energy-environment/2017-11-15/despite-presidential-promises-a-texas-town-looks-at-life-after-coal Mose Buchele /energy-environment/2017-10-16/3-takeaways-from-unprecedented-texas-coal-plant-closures Energy company Luminant says it’s shutting down three of its coal-fired power plants in Texas by early next year. The sudden closure of so many plants is� Mon, 16 Oct 2017 23:48:10 GMT /energy-environment/2017-10-16/3-takeaways-from-unprecedented-texas-coal-plant-closures Mose Buchele