How long can coal power survive? A long time, at new Prairie State plant - Metro-east news - bnd.com

How long can coal power survive? A long time, at new Prairie State plant - Metro-east news - bnd.com: "Prairie State is the largest coal-fired power plant built in the United States in the last 30 years. The company's website says it represents "a new roadmap for coal." It will produce commercial power at a time when the shale gas boom is making the nation's power companies look to natural gas instead of coal for most new plants.

In fact, Prairie State might seem to be the exception concerning coal, which appears to be increasingly on the defensive. On Wednesday, two power companies announced that 10 aging plants will be phased out in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The companies said it wasn't economical to upgrade them with newly required pollution controls. The Sierra Club said those closures brought to 100 the number of announced retirements of coal-fired power plants since January 2010."

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