{"id":350977,"date":"2026-03-31T22:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/energy-dept-extends-order-to-keep-dead-colo-coal-plant-online-costing-millions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:05:45","slug":"energy-dept-extends-order-to-keep-dead-colo-coal-plant-online-costing-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/energy-dept-extends-order-to-keep-dead-colo-coal-plant-online-costing-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Dept. extends order to keep dead Colo. coal plant online, costing millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/energy-dept-extends-order-to-keep-dead-colo-coal-plant-online-costing-millions.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Energy has extended its previous 90-day order to a broken Colorado coal plant, forcing it to stay online further despite generating no electricity, and costing ratepayers tens of millions of dollars. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/03\/31\/energy-dept-extends-order-to-keep-dead-colo-coal-plant-online-costing-millions\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/energy-dept-extends-order-to-keep-dead-colo-coal-plant-online-costing-millions\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}