Keeping track of the vanishing coal plant industry

Over at Earth2Tech, they’ve been holding their own countdown to extinction for coal potential plants. that Coal Death Watch Map adds a small marker to a map of the US every date a coal-fired capability plants closes down.

Yet they were thrown a bit of a curve ball on a recent coal plant closing. The Mitchell Plant in Albany, Georgia is a coal plant that

will not be closing its doors completely, but it will be converting by to a biomass utility plant. that conversion will allow the plant to operate cheaper and with lower emissions than it has for all these years. It seems utility companies are discovering the skyrocketing expenses involved with maintaining a coal plant, and they’re scrambling to secure more green energy sources to meet demand.

[Source] Shawn Schuster

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