...would cost $60 per megawatt, based on estimates for coal purchased in Healy and shipped by rail. Power from a gas-fired plant would run $77 per megawatt, Babcock said. Fluidized-bed technology burns cleaner than earlier coal-fired plants...

...conventional gas and consumption growth." That growth will be driven by electric utilities, as they build new gas-fired plants and switch old ones to gas because it's a cleaner fuel. The gas price picture looks good, too, Rutherford says...

...Power are planning to replace old turbines and build new power plants. Want to guess what they're building? New gas-fired plants. Matanuska Electric Association wants to generate its own power to be less reliant on buying power from Chugach...