Faces of Power: Yves Edouard Noel
Journey to 2030
“We’re going to a decarbonized future. On our path there, we have to have enough presence of mind and flexibility to change depending on innovation and new outcomes.”
Journey to 2030
Journey to 2030
Journey to 2030
Journey to 2030
A Long, Strange Trip
Coal plants produced 19.98 percent of the grid’s generation in 2020, for the entire continental U.S. So coal generation came in under one-fifth for the first time. Though ever so slightly (by two-hundredths of a percent).
While zero-emission nuclear, hydro, wind and solar produced 38.53 percent. That’s nearly two-fifths. And nearly twice coal’s percentage.
All this happened because coal generation dropped almost nineteen percent from 2019 to 2020. As a result, carbon dioxide emissions dropped by around ten percent.