Proposed coal plants in the United States

Beginning around the year 2000, in response to increases in natural gas prices, utilities across the United States began a renewed push to build new coal-fired electricity generating plants. By the spring of 2007, approximately 150 such projects were either under construction or in various stages of planning. The National Energy Technology Laboratory, a division of the Department of Energy, maintained a database of such projects, but ceased providing project-specific information as of May 2007. Since that report, scores of coal-fired power plants have been canceled, but new proposals have appeared.

To find the proposed coal plants in your state, click on the map, or scroll down to use the links below.

(Note: There are no proposed coal plants in Alabama, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Vermont.)

The following sortable table lists proposed coal plants in the United States. Sierra plant names, capacity figures, and status designations are as listed in the Sierra Club's "Stopping the Coal Rush" tracking list as of May 2011.

To sort the table by a column, click on the column header. Clicking a second time on the header will reverse the order of the sort.

Related resources

 * Coal plants cancelled in 2007
 * Coal plants cancelled in 2008
 * Coal plants cancelled in 2009
 * Coal plants cancelled in 2010
 * What happened to the 151 proposed coal plants?
 * Citizen groups working on coal issues
 * Existing U.S. Coal Plants
 * Proposed coal plants cross-reference table
 * Proposed Synfuels Plants in the United States