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Subject:	Oil & gas markets in the era of energy dominance
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February 23, 2026 Today in Energy ›

Retirement delays of U.S. electric generating capacity may continue in 2026 ›

U.S. power plant owners and operators plan to retire nearly 11 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale electric generating capacity from the U.S. power grid this year, according to data reported to us in our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. Almost all the scheduled retirements are either coal-fired power plants (58%) or steam turbines and simple-cycle natural gas (42%). More ›

U.S. planned utility-scale electric generating capacity retirements

Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, December 2025