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Suniva Announces New Facility to Dramatically Increase Solar Cell Manufacturing Capacity in America

LCG, April 15, 2026--Suniva announced yesterday that it has entered agreements to bring a state-of-the-art 4.5 GW solar cell manufacturing facility to Laurens, South Carolina. The new facility, combined with Suniva’s existing facility at its headquarters in metro Atlanta, will bring the company’s total annual domestic solar cell manufacturing capacity to over 5.5 GW.

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U.S. Coal-fired Generating Capacity Retirements in 2025 Are Less Than 20 Percent of Retirements in 2022

LCG, April 13, 2026--The EIA today released an "In-brief Analysis" of U.S. coal-fired generating capacity retirements in 2025. A highlight of the analysis is that, during 2025, the electric power sector retired 2.6 GW of coal-fired generating capacity at four power plants, which is (i) the least since 2010 and (ii) 5.9 GW less than the planned retirement of 8.5 GW at the beginning of 2025.

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IPA Drops Plans for New Coal Unit in Utah

LCG, July 10, 2009--The Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) announced Wednesday it that it will discontinue plans to build a third, 900-MW coal-fired unit at the Intermountain Power Project in central Utah.

Environmentalists had opposed the project for a variety of reasons. The Sierra Club stated that the plant permit should not have been issued because air emissions would reduce visibility of national parks and better emission control technologies are available. The Sierra Club's appeal of air permit has been on hold for over a year.

Support from those planning to receive the power output from the new unit has also declined. The city-owned, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) purchases a large portion of the power generated from the existing two units, and the power purchase agreement (PPA) extends through 2026. However, last week Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa announced that Los Angeles would stop purchasing electricity from coal-fired power plants by 2020.

In the summer of 2004, Los Angeles Mayor Hahn directed LADWP to withdraw from the expansion of the coal-fired, Intermountain Power Plant in Utah and to pursue cleaner energy sources.

IPA will now allow the air-quality permit for a coal-fired Unit 3 expire. A spokesperson for IPA stated, "The understanding within IPA is that if there were ever an attempt to start another third coal-fired power unit at that location, they would have to start over."
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