{"id":850,"date":"2025-12-17T13:51:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/last-coal-fired-plant-in-washington-state-converting-to-natural-gas\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:51:48","slug":"last-coal-fired-plant-in-washington-state-converting-to-natural-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/last-coal-fired-plant-in-washington-state-converting-to-natural-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Coal-Fired Plant in Washington State Converting to Natural Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lone remaining coal-fired power plant in the state of Washington will shut down at the end of December, and will be converted to burn natural gas. Operator TransAlta Corp. on December 9 signed an agreement with Puget Sound Energy (PSE) for the transition, with a 16-year, fixed-price contract for the gas-fired generation that runs through 2044.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/last-coal-fired-plant-in-washington-state-converting-to-natural-gas\/\">Last Coal-Fired Plant in Washington State Converting to Natural Gas<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Centralia_Power_Plant,_September_2020\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/centralia-power-plant-september-2020-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/centralia-power-plant-september-2020-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/centralia-power-plant-september-2020-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/centralia-power-plant-september-2020-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/centralia-power-plant-september-2020-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/centralia-power-plant-september-2020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/centralia-power-plant-september-2020-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lone remaining coal-fired power plant in the state of Washington will shut down at the end of December, and will be converted to burn natural gas. Operator TransAlta Corp. on December 9 signed an <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}