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In the US coal has dropped from 30% of our electricity generation to 10% in barely a few years. Coal plants around the country are shutting down because of how
by KennyBlanken 5y ago
In the US coal has dropped from 30% of our electricity generation to 10% in barely a few years. Coal plants around the country are shutting down because of how expensive coal is compared to wind and solar. Meanwhile we had nearly 20GW of grid-scale solar and wind added in one year, and that doesn't count small installations like residential rooftop systems.
- Miner49er 5y agoWhile renewables have had an impact, hasn't it mostly been replaced by natural gas?
- barney54 5y agoThis is not accurate. This year coal has produced 23% of US electricity. See table 7.2a. https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/ https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/
- KennyBlanken 5y agoBullshit. 2021, 72.4 Billion BTUS total use and 8.6 Billion BTUs from coal. 11%. Sorry I was off by one percent.
- barney54 5y agoNo, you are not looking at electricity generation. Here's the data: https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec7_5.pdf https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec7_5.pdf So far in 2021, coal has generated 719,038 million kwh out of a total of 3,142,341 million kwh.