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The Kansas Sierra Club says electric utility Evergy is not moving fast enough to cut carbon emissions and close coal-fired power plants. A new report says customers would save hundreds of millions of dollars closing all coal plants by 2030.

Ricky Kharawala/Unsplash Joseph Daniel, Senior Energy Analyst | February 11, 2021, 11:10 am EDT Perhaps one of the most over-used Hollywood clichés is the non-committal partner. Often willing to espouse love for their significant other, yet unwilling to, as Beyonce would recommend, “put a ring on it.” Sadly, electric utilities across the United States seem to have fallen in the same trope: More than willing to set big ambiti...

Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence Market forces, investor sentiment and existing policies have driven the decline of the U.S. coal fleet in recent years and will likely continue to prompt closures, but the last of the power plants may remain online well past the next decade without policy interventions. Many utilities have pledged to hit net-zero emissions targets at some point, but details are lacking in the public sphere. U.S. President Joe Biden aims to decarbonize the power sector by ...

advertisement The number of companies that have set net-zero climate goals—meaning that they’ll cut their CO2 emissions as much as possible, and any they still emit will be offset by projects that capture carbon—has more than tripled over roughly the last year. Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, says that it plans to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Unilever, another consumer product giant with hundreds of brands, plans to get there by 2039. Duke Energy, the North Carolina-base...

Florida power companies panned in renewable energy ranking The ranking is in a new report released by the Sierra Club this month.     Florida’s investor-owned power companies fell flat in a new report that ranked utilities around the country on their plans for renewable energy. Pictured is Tampa Electric Co.s Big Bend Power Station in 2017. | [Luis Santana | Times (2017)] Published Jan. 29 Florida’s investor-owned power companies fell flat in a new report that ranked utilities a...

Dive Brief: Despite setting goals to decarbonize their resource mix, many utility pledges amount to little more than "meaningless greenwashing" because power companies are not moving quickly enough to phase out fossil fuels and add clean energy, according to a new report and data set from Sierra Club. The report grades utility decarbonization efforts based on coal plant retirement schedules, plans to add gas-fired capacity, and clean energy investment. Some utilities with carbon-neutral pledg...