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🤓 just geeking out @GlobalEnergyMon's coal power database…

here's a list of US coal fired power stations that have closed since 2010:

• ACE
• Albright
• Allen
• Alma
• Altavista
• Ames
• Apache
• Arapahoe
• Armstrong
• Ashtabula
• Avon Lake
• Bailly…
• Baldwin
• Barry
• Bay Shore
• Beaver Valley
• Beckjord
• Big Brown
• Big Cajun II
• Big Sandy
• Black Dog
• Black River
• Blount St
• Blue Valley
• Boswell
• Brayton Point
• Bremo Bluff
• Bruce Mansfield
• Buck
• Burger
• Cambria
• Cameo
• Canadys…
• Cane Run
• Cape Fear
• Carbon
• Cayuga
• Cedar Bay
• Celanese
• Central
• Chamois
• Cherokee
• Chesapeake
• Chesterfield
• Cholla
• Cliffside
• Clinch River
• Cobb
• Coffeen
• Cogentrix Portsmouth
• Colbert
• Coleman
• Conesville
• Corette…
• Council Bluffs
• Crane
• Crawford
• Cromby
• Crystal River
• Dale
• Dan River
• Danskammer
• Dean Mitchell
• Deepwater
• Dubuque
• Duck Ck
• E.W. Brown
• Eagle Valley
• Earl F. Wisdom
• Eastlake
• Eckert
• Eddystone
• Edge Moor
• Edgecombe
• Edgewater…
• Edwards
• Edwardsport
• Elmer Smith
• Elrama
• Endicott
• England
• Fair
• Fisk
• Four Corners
• Frank Ratts
• Gadsden
• Gallagher
• Gaston
• George Neal North
• Gibbons Ck
• Glen Lyn
• Gorgas
• Grainger
• Grand River
• Green River
• Greene County…
• Greenidge
• H. Wilson Sundt
• H.B. Robinson
• Hamilton
• Hammond
• Harbor Beach
• Harding St
• Harllee Branch
• Hatfields Ferry
• Havana
• Henderson
• Hennepin
• Hopewell
• Hudson
• Hunlock
• Huntley
• Hutchings
• Hutsonville
• Indian River…
• J.T. Deely
• Jack Watson
• James River
• Jefferies
• John Sevier
• Johnsonville
• Joliet
• Kammer
• Kanawha River
• Killen
• Kline
• Kraft
• Lake Road
• Lake Shore
• Lansing
• Lansing Smith
• Lawrence
• Lee
• Lumberton
• Martin Drake
• Marysville…
• McDonough
• McIntosh
• McMeekin
• Mecklenburg
• Mercer
• Meredosia
• Miami Fort
• Milton Kapp
• Mitchell
• Mobile
• Monticello
• Montrose
• Morrow
• Mount Tom
• Mt Poso
• Muskingum River
• Muskogee
• Naughton
• Navajo
• Nelson Dewey
• New Castle…
• NewPage Luke Mill
• Newton
• Niles
• North Branch
• North Omaha
• Northeast
• Northeastern
• Nucla
• Paradise
• Philip Sporn
• Picway
• Piney Ck
• Pleasant Prairie
• Portland
• Potomac River
• Prairie Ck
• Presque Isle
• Pulliam
• Quindaro
• R Paul Smith…
• Reid Gardner
• Richard H. Gorsuch
• Rio Bravo Jasmin
• Rio Bravo Poso
• River Rouge
• Riverbend
• Riverside
• Riverton
• Rivesville
• Roanoke Valley
• Robert Reid
• Salem Harbor
• San Juan
• Sandow
• Scholz
• Shawnee
• Shawville
• Sheldon
• Shiras
• Sibley…
• Silver Lake
• Somerset Power
• Southampton
• St Clair
• St Johns River
• Stanton
• State Line
• Ster
• Stockton
• Stoneman
• Stuart
• Sunbury
• Sutherland
• Sutton
• Syl Laskin
• Taconite Harbor
• Tanners Ck
• Tecumseh
• Thames
• Titus…
• Trenton Channel
• Trigen Syracuse
• Tyrone
• Urquhart
• Utah Smelter
• Valley
• Valmont
• Vermilion
• W.S. Lee
• Wabash River
• Watts Bar
• Weadock
• Weatherspoon
• Welsh
• Weston
• Westover
• Whiting
• Widows Ck
• Will County
• Willow Island
• Wood River
• Wyandotte
• Yates, and
• Yorktown.

…all up:
• 536 units
• 244 sites
• 105.3 GW.
in the last decade, the following US coal power stations have opened:

2010
• Columbus
• Comanche
• Iatan
• JK Spruce
• Oak Ck
• Oak Grv
• Plum Point
• Rodemacher
• Wygen III

2011
• Dry Fork
• Longview
• Southwest
• Trimble County
• Whelan…
2012
• Cliffside
• John W Turk Jr
• Prairie State
• Wise County

2013
• Edwardsport
• Sandy Ck

2014
• Spiritwood

2015
• Healy

(none since)

…all up:
• 25 units
• 22 sites
• 16.1 GW.
coal plants still operating in the US:
• 561 units, at
• 279 sites, totalling
• 246.2 GW.

about 1/3 of CFPSs operating in 2010 have been retired.

plans for:
• 45 new units, across
• 44 sites, totalling
• 28.2 GW
have been abandoned.

none are on the drawing board.
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