Fortnightly Electricity Report, for April 1-14, 2020
In large part undoubtedly from COVID-19, electricity use was down 5.9% compared to the same period in 2019 in the continental U.S.
The U.S. grid’s coal-fired power plants produced 966 million megawatts-hours in 2019. This is remarkable, the first time in decades that coal plants produced less than a billion megawatt-hours. And this number is forty-eight percent down from coal plant production nine years earlier, in 2010.