Coal-fired opportunities still exist, long duration storage a play in US power markets: execs

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Despite some US power market challenges, opportunities remain for arange of generation resources including coal-fired assets in PJMInterconnection and long duration storage in western US states, butthe next five years could see market dynamics change significantly,executives and analysts said Tuesday.“We’ve been seeing the retirement of coal and nuclear generationassets [and their replacement] by natural gas and renewables, but nowthis year we are seeing energy storage being added,” Paul Browning,CEO of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems America, told S&P GlobalPlatts' Financing US Power Conference in New York.