Coal Loses to Natural Gas

[vfx]

http://seekingalpha.com/article/283942-coal-s-decreasing-role-in-power-generation-begins#comments_header

Down to 46 percent!

Coal was responsible for 46 percent of all of the power generated in the United States in the first quarter. That’s three percentage points less than last year and a full six percentage points less than the first quarter of 2008. That’s a huge drop in coal!

[dpeilow]

The UK went down this road in the 90s because NG plants are quick and cheap to build. It does mean we have a fairly low percentage of coal, but nevertheless that percentage has grown from 25.8 to 28.9% in the last year as nuclear plants go offline and the overall grid capacity shrinks a bit.

[vfx]

Coal percentages

A co-worker sent me this site that says coal generation is 57 percent. Is there a best site or multiple places to refer him to?



http://www.powerscorecard.org/tech_d...?resource_id=2

[jerry33]

Coal percentages

A co-worker sent me this site that says coal generation is 57 percent. Is there a best site or multiple places to refer him to?

Try the government site

[stopcrazypp]

Coal percentages

A co-worker sent me this site that says coal generation is 57 percent. Is there a best site or multiple places to refer him to?



http://www.powerscorecard.org/tech_d...?resource_id=2

That site looks to be using very outdated information (the copyright notice is from 2000 and the links it provides is already dead). For the most up to date information, I suggest the EIA like jerry did. That's where that site got its information from in the first place (albeit outdated).

Here's the chart that shows the historic mix of electricity in the US:
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/month...cfm?t=epmt_1_1

[dhrivnak]

Here is an updated page from the EIA.GOV. http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=5610. It said that coal wass down to 42% in 2011 and projected to continue to decline.

[vfx]

Thank you fro the EIA site. It was an eye opener for him. A good one to keep on file!

[vfx]

Another drop! Calibrate your US coal use numbers. Coal use has dropped 44.6 percent since last year.

http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/

[hide][top]U.S. Coal Generation Drops 19 Percent In One Year, Leaving Coal With 36 Percent Share Of Electricity

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...f-electricity/

[jerry33]

Too bad it's natural gas. Like going from heroin to meth.

[vfx]

Too bad it's natural gas. Like going from heroin to meth.

The FUD commenters after any EV aritlce always bring up that all electricity is from coal so EVs are dirtier than gasoline burning cars.

They probably think NG is clean cause it never comes up.