On December 1, Progress Energy Corp. announced that by 2017 it will close 11 coal-fired power plants located at four sites in North Carolina. The plants will be converted to capacity natural gas-burning facilities. The plant sites to be shut down are Sutton, the Cape Fear Plant, the Weathersppon Plant, and the H.F. Lee Plant. Read “Progress Energy to shut down Wilmington’s Sutton Plant in 2014” for the full story.