The plant has faced a variety of environmental challenges through the years, but now is jeopardized by the fact that natural-gas-fired power plants generate electricity at a lower cost.

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) celebrated 100 years of hydroelectric generation at the Wawaitin site on June 6, 2012.

Burlington city leaders and the Burlington Electric Department announced new plans for the McNeil Generating Station on Tuesday.

NIPSCO announced it could retire its coal-fired Michigan City Generating Station on the Lake Michigan lakefront up to two years earlier.

The Northwest’s only nuclear power plant, Columbia Generating Station, at Richland, WA is back online after Energy Northwest operators installed balance weights on a turbine.