Clean Energy Outcompeting Coal
March 28, 2019
Even with the troubling news that use of coal-fired electric power plants is growing in Asia, they are being steadily replaced in the United States as local solar and wind energy increasingly wins on price, with a new report finding that they can replace 74% of coal plants today and 86% by 2025, while saving customers money. Perhaps no surprise. As illustrated recently in Issues, economic forces have played a key role in driving the US decline of coal as an energy resource over the past century.