Some Coal-Fired Power Plants Were Built Last Year – a New Trend, or Are New Coal Plants Dead?
September 1, 2010
According to statistics from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), there were few new coal-fired plants constructed in the past several decades. This is owed mainly to environmental opposition and the resulting legal and regulatory challenges, and the construction of natural gas units and, recently, wind turbines. But that trend may be changing somewhat. In 2009, [...]