Climate Changed
Trump's Latest Idea to Help Coal Is Mini Power Plants
- Energy Department making $100 million available for small coal
- Coal, through innovation, can continue to thrive: agency
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President Donald Trump’s latest idea to save coal-fired power plants: shrink them.
The U.S. Energy Department said Friday it’s making $100 million available to help develop what it labeled as coal plants of the future -- ones that are smaller than conventional, utility-scale plants, more nimble and more efficient. This builds on the agency’s recent efforts to get small coal plants off the ground. It’s calling the initiative “Coal FIRST” (for flexible, innovative, resilient, small and transformative).