Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electricity source in 2020

Re:Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electric... by Robotbeat on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:48AM (#27993233)

Unfortunately, after basically monotonically reducing over the last decade, coal has started creeping up slightly, from 19.5% last year to 21% last 12 months (May2021 and previous 11 months). But it was at the expense of natural gas.

We need to crush coal. The entire coal logistics train, from mines, to coal trains, to power plants, to coal export terminals (and replace blast furnaces with DRI/etc). The US has a quarter of the world’s coal, but we’ve got to lock that stuff underground.

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Re:Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electric... by tonyedgecombe on Thursday July 29, 2021 @06:31AM (#27994851)

We had some odd figures like that in the UK. It turned out two coal stations that were shutting down rushed to use up their coal reserves. Perhaps that is the case here?

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Re:Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electric... by legulere on Thursday July 29, 2021 @03:27AM (#27993840)

If you look at the longer term graph that might as well be some smaller fluctuations. The longer term trend seems to sharply down for coal.

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Re:Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electric... by Robotbeat on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:15AM (#27996133)

I think so, too, but it won’t happen unless we continue to push for it.

The US is now exporting significant amounts of coal to China, whose demand is increasing.

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