Comment by jollyllama
5 months ago
The real reason is that fossil fuel plants have been offlined and decommissioned, and the reason this occurred is because they were made unprofitable by punitive regulation far more so than market forces.
5 months ago
The real reason is that fossil fuel plants have been offlined and decommissioned, and the reason this occurred is because they were made unprofitable by punitive regulation far more so than market forces.
> fossil fuel plants have been offlined and decommissioned
Coal is down, but there has never been more natural gas generation in the US: https://www.epa.gov/power-sector/power-sector-evolution
Yes, perhaps I should have said coal.