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From Tail Risk to Design Baseline: How the Grid Is Adapting to Extreme Heat

Coal
June 9, 2026

System planners and grid operators are treating extreme heat as an assumed operating condition given new pressures, including drought, demand growth, and fuel concerns. Will it be enough? For decades, the U.S. power system treated extreme heat as a tail risk, managed through seasonal readiness—something for which to prepare. But hotter conditions are now arriving […]

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Coal
July 7, 2026

APS Will Convert Retired Coal Units to Burn Natural Gas at Cholla Site

Arizona Public Service (APS) said it plans to convert two closed coal-fired units at its Cholla Power Plant to burn natural gas. The utility this month said construction on the…

Coal
June 16, 2026

A New Coal Plant in the U.S.? Once Unthinkable, Now a Strong Maybe

A $350 million Department of Energy (DOE) coal-revival program has put $18.5 million toward the TerraSpark Energy Campus, a 1.6-GW greenfield project in West Virginia pairing Babcock & Wilcox (B&W)…