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WanderingEng · 2065 days ago · link · · parent · post: "Between 2005 and 2016, almost 80% of the reduction in energy-related CO2 emissions in the US came from the electric power sector."
Is there data available on what effect those sales have had on emissions from personal cars or what the expected emissions are in out years? The article mentions the flat demand in the electric industry. Flat demand makes it easy to replace higher cost, older power plants with newer ones (which by happy coincidence are lower emission). My assumption is the number of miles driven continues to climb, and the emissions saved by EVs will be offset by more usage from traditional cars.