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WanderingEng · 2683 days ago · link · · parent · post: Coal is dead, because nobody wants to build coal-fired power plants.
My anecdote is small, critically located coal plants are getting converted to natural gas. Small, non-critically located coal plants are getting shut down and utilities are building new combined cycle gas plants. The biggest coal plants aren't threatened yet, but their utilization is going down. They'll definitely run during pretty warm and pretty cold periods, but they might stay off for weeks in the mild periods. Meanwhile the combined cycle plants will run nonstop until they have to come down for routine maintenance.