16. Oak Hill – Luminant 17. Three Oaks – Alcoa 18. Twin Oak – Luminant 19. Kosse – Luminant 20. Leesburg – Luminant Based on a map of the Railroad Commission of Texas. Areas of Geologic Conditions Relating to Occurrence of Coal Areas of Geologic Conditions Relating to Occurrence of Lignite 6 Permitted Coal Mine [R] Reclamation Only ...

 — The closure of Martin Lake, like its sister plant in Mount Pleasant in 2018, would mean hundreds of lost jobs for plant operators in an area already stricken by the collapse of the coal mining industry. Texas lignite, a low-grade form of coal strip mined out of East Texas and fed into plants such as Martin Lake, has few remaining customers.

 — In what will be welcome news to environmental groups, on Tuesday the Texas grid gave the green light to Luminant to idle two units at their Monticello coal power plant and lignite mine in ...

 — Luminant announced last week that it's shutting down three of its coal plants, including the Big Brown plant in Freestone County. Photo by Robert W. Hart/The Texas Tribune. Oct. 17, 2017. North Texans environmentalists are cheering the news that two notorious Texas smog monsters are meeting their demise.

Luminant • Largest power generator in Texas. • Approximately 4,400 employees throughout the state. • 2,580 are employed across the company's coal plant and mining operations. • Created about 675 net new jobs since the beginning of 2008. Big Brown Power Plant Location: Freestone County, Texas Power Plant and Mine Employees: 332

 — With this announcement the list of TX coal closures continues to grow. Currently there is still about 17.4 GW of coal capacity left in TX and half of this capacity now has an announced closure date.What would it take to shutdown all of the remaining coal capacity in TX by 2030 and replace the current coal generation without adding new NG …

The coal mining company Luminant, which owns Three Oaks Mine east of Elgin, has submitted a final application to release itself from land reclamation obligations. The mine was shuttered in 2017 along with the …

 — The new Oak Hill Solar Facility is expected to go online in 2022 in the Texas ERCOT market and will be 200 megawatts. Skip Navigation. ... Luminant to build solar farm at Oak Hill Mine.

Luminant, a subsidiary of Vistra (NYSE: VST), is a competitive power generation business, including mining, wholesale marketing and trading, and development operations. Luminant has approximately 39,000 megawatts of generation across 12 states, powered by a diverse portfolio of natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery storage facilities.

 — The Sandow plant was one of three Texas plants the energy company Luminant announced it was closing that day. A coal mine that feeds Sandow is also closing. The region is expected to lose...

 — Dallas power company Luminant announced Thursday it will idle coal mining operations at Oak Hill Mine in Rusk County by the end of the year and cut 100 jobs, continuing

 — Luminant, Texas' largest power producer and subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings, will bring three power plants back online that previously had been shut down …

 — DALLAS (AP) — Electricity generator Luminant is cutting about 600 jobs as it closes three coal-fired power plants and a mine in Texas. The Texas Workforce …

Luminant will shut down the lignite mine that feeds the Big Brown power plant in Fairfield, switching to cleaner-burning Wyoming coal as part of a hasty effort to meet new federal air regulations ...

 — Monticello Unit 3 will switch from Texas lignite to Powder River Basin (PRB) coal. The supporting Thermo and Winfield mines will cease operations. Units No. 1 and 2 at the Big Brown power plant in Freestone County will also switch to PRB coal. Mining will cease at the supporting Big Brown/Turlington mine.

 — Texas power giant Luminant will close the lignite mine that feeds the Big Brown power plant in Fairfield, in Freestone County, switching to cleaner- burning Wyoming coal as part of a hasty effort ...

 — Winfield South Strip is a surface coal mining operation in Titus County, Texas, operated by Luminant Mining and owned by Energy Future Holdings.. It was announced on September 12, 2011 that Texas based coal plant Monticello Units 1 and 2 would be idled in January 2012 if Energy Future Holdings, owner of Luminant, failed in …

 — Luminant plans to build a new solar farm on the site of its retired Oak Hill coal mine on the west side of Martin Lake in East Texas. The Panola Watchman reported plans for the solar farm are part of a wider push from Luminant for more renewable energy. Luminant's parent company Vistra announced

 — Shutting down operations at Oak Hill comes on the heels of other Luminant closings in East Texas. Last year, Luminant announced it would layoff 80 workers at mines near the Monticello power plant in Titus County as well as a mine in Hopkins County. A year ago, Luminant announced it was closing a mine in Panola County near Beckville.

On December 20, 2019, Luminant Generation Company LLC transferred the Monticello Site to Golden Eagle Development, LLC, a subsidiary of Commercial Liability Partners, LLC. On December 9, 2022, Sandow Power Company LLC, Luminant Mining Company LLC, and Luminant Generation Company LLC transferred the Sandow site to SLR Property I, LP.

 — From Inside Energy: Travis Brown has some ideas. He drives down a quiet country road in Elgin, Texas, a small town about 25 miles east of Austin. A dark, open pit coal mine peeks through the trees. The Three Oaks Mine is owned by Luminant, the largest coal company in Texas, is permitted to operate on nearly 16,000 acres. "It's an amazing …

 — Following the closure of the Sandow plant, the mine that supplies its coal, the Three Oaks Mine in Bastrop County, will close as well. Luminant expects 450 employees to be impacted by the mine and plant closures. Over the last few years, the management of the Big Brown site has made "operational adjustments" to help that unit stay viable.

 — Luminant Mining will lay off 160 workers from their Liberty Mine and Martin Lake Mining Complex in Tatum on Dec. 26, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification released by the Texas Workforce Commission today. Luminant will completely cease operations at their Liberty Mine and lay off additional workers at their …

 — Luminant Mining will lay off 160 workers the day after Christmas from its Liberty Mine and Martin Lake Mining Complex in Tatum, according to a Texas Workforce Commission notice issued

Railroad Commission of Texas Annual Coal Production, 1976 - 2021 Dos Republicas Coal Partnership Eagle Pass (42B) ... 2021 Coal Mining Annual Fee Payment Report. Dos Republicas Coal Partnership. ... Luminant Mining Company LLC. 3F Big Brown Mine 6,170.00 56,077.40 $ 62,247.40 4L. Martin Lake Mine.

 — An archaeology project at Luminant's Kosse Mine in Robertson County has not only uncovered details of an abandoned late 19 th – to early 20 th-century …

Federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Recognizes Work at Monticello-Winfield Mine in East Texas IRVING, Texas — Oct. 14, 2021 — The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) today announced Luminant, a subsidiary of Vistra (NYSE: VST), as a recipient of its 2021 Excellence in Surface Coal …

 — Luminant — operator of eight of the 20 coal mines in Texas — maintains it can cover the cost of reclamation despite any possible reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy ...

 — An earlier round of federal regulations combined with declining lignite coal demand led Luminant to close its Oak Hill lignite mine south of Longview in 2018 with layoffs affecting four other...

(Luminant) • Railroad Commission of Texas' Coal Mining Reclamation Award 2014 (Luminant) • U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Director's Award 2009, five-time Winner (Luminant) Environmental Responsibility Luminant is proud of its strong track record of meeting or outperforming all