Privately
owned coal generators such as Homer City Generation in Pennsylvania have already gone bankrupt, and large generators such as FirstEnergy's merchant generation subsidiary are now facing bankruptcy.
Not exact matches
But nobody wants to
own or run
coal and gas
generators if they can only make money out of them for a few hours on a few days.
Stanwell said it is looking forward to the removal of the carbon tax, which it said cost $ 355 million in its first year (state
owned black
coal generators did not get compensation).
Stanwell Corp, the Queensland government
owned electricity
generator, has failed to make any money in the past year from its 4,000 MW of
coal and gas fired generation because rooftop solar has taken away demand and pushed down wholesale electricity prices.
Notably, all but one of Florida's
coal - fired
generators ** failed the stress test, at plants
owned by an array of Florida utilities.
TRUenergy also
owns the Mount Piper and Wallerawang black
coal - fired
generators in NSW; gas - fired generation at Tallawarra in NSW, at Hallett in South Australia, and Newport and Jeeralang in Victoria.