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>It’s only the 36.7% that from coal where the numbers come close The problem is, when you add that demand to your power grid, is that increasing the supply of
by lvass 4y ago
>It’s only the 36.7% that from coal where the numbers come close
The problem is, when you add that demand to your power grid, is that increasing the supply of hydro, nuclear, wind, or solar? In practice, the extra demand from EVs only increases the correlated amount of coal used as that is where the excess of potential electricity generation is, for now.
- Retric 4y agoI don’t know about other countries but for US and China coal is significantly underrepresented in new power plant construction relative to it’s share of total production. The US hasn’t built a large coal plant recently and none are currently planned. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=30812 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=30812 Looking at the number being decommissioned over the next few years it doesn’t seem like EV transition is really changing anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal-fired_power_stations_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal-fired_power_stati...