New England’s Last Coal-Fired Power Plants to Close Under EPA Renewables Deal

Merrimack Station in Bow and Schiller Station in Portsmouth will be transformed into ’renewable energy parks.’

Steam rises from a power plant in Adamsville, Alabama, on April 13, 2021. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFT via Getty Images

New England’s last coal-fired power plants will permanently close within the next four years, parent company Granite Shore Power announced on March 27.

The voluntary shutdown of operations at Merrimack Station—which initially began operating in the 1960s—will take place by 2028 as part of an agreement reached with environmental groups and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).