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“Just look at the data … ‘If we’re going to support the economy and make it grow and have lots of employment, this is where I need to invest.’”

NIPSCO, which has almost a half-million electricity customers, has issued an RFP for one of the biggest utility-scale solar propositions in the country.

“As activists, lawmakers, and communities grapple with how to handle the economic, environmental, and social changes, many are asking how we ensure that transition is just,” the author writes.

Democrats from several states are standing by unions in pushing for congressional action to shore up the flagging Miners’ Pension Fund, which provides insurance and retirement benefits for 80,000.

The Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel plant will soon be powered mostly by utility-scale solar as industries along the Front Range retrofit for the new energy economy.

“The future for coal in the region is one of continuing decline, if not complete obsolescence,” concludes researches who find a nine-state region engulfed by a most likely irreversible trend.

Reinvestment in infrastructure—broadband included—can help coalfield economies evolve in a way that doesn’t leave workers behind. Healthcare and education also offer job force opportunities that cannot be outsourced.

PacifiCorp is setting the industry pace in a shift toward solar and battery storage, a strategy likely to influence electricity-production companies across the board.

Skeptics of plans for the 36-acre Johnson Run coal mine in Trimble Township are questioning whether the company in question could meet cleanup requirements after the original developer filed for bankruptcy.

The company, which has 1.9 million customers in six states, will shut most of its coal-fired generation units over the next decade, replacing them with wind, solar and battery storage.