Comments on: A crucial juncture for world energy: IEA outlook for renewables, coal, gas and nuclear https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/01/23/a-crucial-juncture-for-world-energy-iea-outlook-for-renewables-coal-gas-and-nuclear/ All about electronics and circuit design Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/01/23/a-crucial-juncture-for-world-energy-iea-outlook-for-renewables-coal-gas-and-nuclear/comment-page-1/#comment-1478314 Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:24:25 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=29871#comment-1478314 2015′s Electricity Retirements: 80 Percent Coal Plants
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/03/09/1515205/2015s-electricity-retirements-80-percent-coal-plants?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29

In the US, electricity demand is growing very slowly, which means that capacity additions don’t have to exceed retirements by much in order to keep the grid functioning.

18GW of capacity were retired this past year, more than 80 percent of it coal-fired. More than 27GW of utility-scale projects will replace that this year.

2015’s electricity retirements: 80 percent coal plants
And 30 percent retired due to more stringent mercury emissions.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/2015s-electricity-retirements-80-percent-coal-plants/

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