In August, the U.S. Department of Energy released its highly anticipated grid study, finding cheap natural gas to be the main driver behind base load power plant retirements. This was very obviously, ...

What began in 1898 as a coal supplier in the Ruhr region became, over the decades, a symbol of German nuclear power. RWE relied on large nuclear power plants, secure baseload power, and centralized ...

China and France are retrofitting coal and nuclear plants to operate more intermittently, reflecting how growing renewable penetration is reshaping traditional base-load generation economics. Gas ...

A German study argues that a renewables-dominated grid can fully decarbonize power systems within 20 years. Large-scale renewables would undermine the economics of base-load power generation, making ...