Even in the midst of a green energy revolution, one of downtown Milwaukee's oldest sources of power remains not only relevant, but growing. It's also largely invisible. That's We Energies' steam ...

Britain's transition from water power to coal-based steam power set the stage for the 19th century Industrial Revolution, which transformed much of Europe and North America into predominantly urban ...

Back in the heyday of large power plant construction, primarily from the 1950s through the 1970s, the most popular technologies were complex coal-fired or nuclear facilities, with hydro power ...

Economic and other factors have had a large influence on the movement away from coal to other energy sources. One of these influences was the rapid growth of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) that ...