DOE Secretary of Energy issued an emergency order to mitigate blackout risks ahead of a period of elevated demand, a high rate of planned generator outages during the autumn maintenance season, and numerous planned transmission outages.

The slow buildout of U.S. transmission and surging demand from new data centers continues to hike congestion levels across the country.

Coal dust has long been a nuisance – and a possible threat to human health – for residents of the Southeast Community, a largely African-American neighborhood also known as the East End, columnist Roger Chesley writes.

Slovenia’s Velenje coal mine is one of the sites within international project GeoSolar for exploring the possibility of converting coal mines into underground thermal energy storage facilities.

Russian coal exports to Turkey declined sharply in January-August 2026 as Black Sea shipping disruption, limited rail capacity and weak export profitability continued to pressure supplies.

India's rapidly growing demand for electricity could force it to add substantially more coal-fired power capacity than planned, the head of the power sector planner said on Tuesday.