The Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, was manually shut down early Thursday morning due to a mechanical problem. Energy Northwest workers shut the plant ...

Companies tasked with tearing down, cleaning up, or repurposing a project site know the importance of strategic planning. The retirement of older thermal power generation facilities, driven by a ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - NextEra Energy moved one step closer to restarting the Duane Arnold Nuclear Power Plant after meeting with the Iowa Utilities Commission Wednesday evening. The company said ...

The U.S. Energy Department has ordered a Michigan coal plant to remain open for a fourth time, citing power grid reliability. Keeping the J.H. Campbell plant operational has resulted in a $135 million ...

A local government in Japan voted Monday to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant, which has been closed since 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. A local assembly in Japan voted to restart the ...

Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a pivotal ...

A developer plans to build a 160-acre data center and its own gas-fired power plant in Surprise. Residents near the proposed site worry about air pollution, health risks, and safety concerns. Because ...

A Michigan power plant that has consumed coal in a roaring furnace to generate electricity since the early 1960s was supposed to retire last year. Instead, it’s been kept running for months, on the ...