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The life of a new natural gas plant — to replace the Cayuga Generating Station in Vermillion County — could extend past 2050, which is when the larger Duke Energy corporation hopes to have net ...
Three years ago, Duke Energy opened its newest natural gas ... A 2015 state law ordered Duke to close the coal plant and replace it with the $893 million natural gas plant. It's a sign of things ...
Duke Energy is proposing a three-year extension for the Gibson power plant in southwest Indiana, the second-largest coal-fired power plant in the country. Gibson, originally scheduled to close in ...
Duke Energy Corp.’s massive, $3.5 billion power plant in Edwardsport produced no electricity from coal in April, May or June, instead switching to natural gas as fuel during a prolonged ...
Duke Energy plans for them to be running by 2028 and 2030. The coal-powered plant at the same site would close three years later. The Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit, is calling on state ...
Coal ash is the byproduct of coal combustion. Duke Energy started storing coal ash in unlined, onsite coal ash ponds when it built the plant in the 1960s. Now there are millions of tons of it there.
The grid operators that draw power from the plants said they never asked for them to remain open, and consumers may have to ...
Trickett-Wile / Charlotte Observer file Duke Energy is asking North Carolina regulators to allow it to replace two coal-fired units with a pair of natural gas turbines at its Marshall power plant ...
The company plans to shut down the coal-fired plant on May 31, 2025—years ahead of schedule—as part of its transition to cleaner energy sources. The closure has sparked concern among some ...
Two consumer advocacy groups are split on Duke Energy’s proposal to close the Cayuga coal plant. But they both said a new, $3 billion natural gas plant isn’t the right thing for Duke’s ...
If state regulators approve the new plants, Duke Energy plans for them to be running ... Energy is in the process of cleaning up and closing coal ash basins while working to meet an increasing ...