Energy Dept keeps demanding a coal plant stay open that’s not even running
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<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/08/Johnsonville-TN-coal-plant-demolition.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1200" /></div><p>The Department of Energy issued a second “emergency” order to keep the last coal plant in Washington open for another 90 days, doing its best to raise electricity and health costs for Washington state.</p> <p>But nobody wants it open – including the owner of the plant, who hasn’t operated it at all in the last 3 months since its planned closure, citing “flush” electricity supply from the state’s ample hydropower resources.</p> <a class="more-link" href="https://electrek.co/2026/03/17/energy-dept-keeps-demanding-a-coal-plant-stay-open-thats-not-even-running/#more-460009">more…</a>
<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/08/Johnsonville-TN-coal-plant-demolition.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1200" /></div><p>The Department of Energy issued a second “emergency” order to keep the last coal plant in Washington open for another 90 days, doing its best to raise electricity and health costs for Washington state.</p>
<p>But nobody wants it open – including the owner of the plant, who hasn’t operated it at all in the last 3 months since its planned closure, citing “flush” electricity supply from the state’s ample hydropower resources.</p>
<a class="more-link" href="https://electrek.co/2026/03/17/energy-dept-keeps-demanding-a-coal-plant-stay-open-thats-not-even-running/#more-460009">more…</a>