Coal's Influence On Energy Generation Is Fading Fast

23 Feb 2024 | Abstracted from Axios

"Based on plant owners' reports to the Energy Department stats arm, another 43 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity is slated to retire by 2030...[I]n 2018, EIA data suggested that from January 2018 to December 2023 only 37.7GW would retire, compared with the 81.5GW that did retire during that period.

"Coal, once dominant, today provides about 15% of U.S. power."

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