New England’s last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners

The last coal-fired power plant in New England, Merrimack Station, has stopped running.
With the closure of that facility, the region is poised to become the first in the United States without a coal plant on its grid (though New York state, which has its own regional grid operator, stopped burning coal in 2020).

Granite Shore Power, the company that owns the coal plant in Bow, New Hampshire, said they ceased commercial operations Sept. 12, about a year and a half since they announced they would retire their facility by 2028 as part of a settlement agreement with environmental groups.

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New England’s last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners | WBUR News

Granite Shore Power, the company that owns the coal plant in Bow, New Hampshire, said they ceased commercial operations Sept. 12, about a year and a half after they announced they would retire their facility by 2028.

^{Mara Hoplamazian, New Hampshire Public Radio (WBUR)}

It’s not news that #beef production has an outsized environmental impact, but I appreciate this comparison to #coal:

"Relative to other food sources, beef is uniquely carbon-intensive. [cattle] produce seven times as many GHGs per calorie of meat as pigs do, and around 40% more than farmed prawns do. This makes beef a bigger outlier among foods than coal is among sources of electricity: burning coal generates just 14% more GHGs than burning oil, another common fuel.”

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