The Nanticoke coal plant, once the largest in the world, stopped burning coal in 2013, but its 655-ft-tall twin chimneys stood like beacons on the north shore of Lake Erie in Canada’s Ontario province—until the end of February.
Drought and continued reliance on electric generation that uses water for cooling are causing some of India’s power plants to shut down for days and even months at a time, a problem that is expected to worsen, according to a new report from the World Resources Institute.
While proponents of a grid resiliency measure said it would bolster the system during bad weather, the recent winter storm proved such efforts unnecessary.