Disappearing Coal-Fired Electricity
How much longer before coal routinely falls below 20 percent of all generation?
The lowest number of megawatt-hours produced from coal-firing, in memory, was this April. According to Friday's Energy Department data.
Second lowest number of megawatt-hours from coal? This March. Fourth lowest? This February. (Third lowest was last November.)
Indeed, over the last few decades, in only eight months has the number of megawatt-hours from coal fallen below a hundred million.
Three of those eight months were February, March and April of this year. Another three of those months were October, November and December of last year.