President Trump has signed orders to keep ageing coal plants online, despite utilities warning of high operating costs. Energy experts argue that the Department of Energy’s blackout risk report ...

While much of the world is looking to phase out its coal production, United States President Donald Trump has put coal back on the energy agenda, with big plans to reinvigorate ageing coal facilities.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ingmar Rentzhog is the CEO and founder of We Don’t Have Time. For the first time in history, renewables have generated more ...

Coal’s decline was not a policy accident.

On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Administration released its latest data on how the US generated electricity during the first six months of 2025. The data suggests the notable surge in power use ...

LAUNCESTON, Australia, July 24 (Reuters) - The headline news in China's energy transition is often about how the world's second-largest economy is adding solar and wind generation at a breakneck pace.

As residents’ electricity prices have increased, nearly one out of five customers of the leading utility company in the state is behind on monthly bills. A coal-fired power plant owned and operated by ...

Last year China burned 4.9bn tonnes of coal. Imagine a black and glistening Great Pyramid of Giza; then imagine, stretched behind it, a line of 1,500 more just the same. Three things combine to make ...

Communities in South Africa’s coal-mining towns say there’s little sign of a clean energy transition on the ground, where they complain of persistent pollution and violence toward activists. A ...