While there are 282 plants across Europe left to go,
coal plant retirements since January 2016 have already resulted in significant health and economic benefits.
Not exact matches
Since 2012, two of New York's remaining
coal plants, Dunkirk and Cayuga, have requested to mothball while a third, Huntley, has requested permanent
retirement due to unfavorable market conditions.
Utilities nationwide have set
retirements for 266
coal power
plants since 2010 as residents reject paying the personal health costs and the expensive electricity rates needed to keep old
coal plants running.
This means that 37
coal plants have retired or announced
retirement since January 2016.
The underlying analysis revealed that the average
coal plant in the US is 40 years old and
since 2010 more than half of US
coal units have either shut down or have a planned
retirement in the near future.
E3G's scorecard looks at the progress made on phasing out
coal since the Paris climate conference and shows that an additional 40GW of existing
coal plants have been marked for
retirement over the coming years.
EIA has revised its forecast for
coal - fired
plant retirements upward twice
since November.
The
retirements of the Tanners Creek Generating Station in Indiana, the Muskingum River Power
Plant and the Big Sandy Power
Plant in Kentucky represent the 140th, 141st, and 142nd
coal plants to retire or announce their
retirement since 2010.