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Re: Rising sun: renewables to dominate new power capacity through 2026 -IEA
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2021, 06:26:51 PM »
Investing in new coal fired plants is out for US electric utilities. Too risky. 

10 years ago my local utility was 80% coal fired.  Today it's 50% solar and wind, 20% coal and the rest "other" (mainly natural gas.)