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The shrinking national customer base for the Powder River Basin coal industry will create “continued pressure on the PRB’s mines and lead to rising economic uncertainty in the region.”

The Energy Information Administration has U.S. coal production dropping by almost 8 percent this year to a record low, according to a data set the agency began compiling in 1978.

As part of the Abandoned Mines Land Project in southwestern Virginia, work will begin this fall on a utility-scale solar array to power the high-security, 65,000-square-foot Mineral Gap Data Center.

Denmark has a longstanding reputation for its outsized development of wind and solar. Lesser-known players include Kansas and Iowa, where the renewable energy business is booming.

Activists are making the case for more investment in southeastern Kentucky’s tourism economy as a way to leverage the area’s history and coal-industry legacy.

Nagging issues persist around the proposed acquisition of a failing power plant in Arizona, including on cleanup liabilities, worker benefits and deferred-maintenance costs.

As local coal severance tax revenues have dropped from almost $1 million annually to $83,900, the sheriff of Martin County, Ky., has struggled to maintain law-enforcement norms.

Cloud Peak Energy, a Powder River Basin producer whose business plan turns on exports, faces delisting on the New York Stock Exchange, potential bankruptcy, and is cutting employee benefits.

Microsoft Corp. has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement to be the sole off-taker for a 74-megawatt North Carolina solar farm. The project will create 500 construction jobs. 

The U.S. solar arm of Shell is spending $150 million to build three solar farms in Georgia’s rural southwest Early County. The first phase will install 350,000 modules manufacture in-state.