It's a good news but I didn't expect that coal is still on the 1st place and not really trending down. I though coal was largely replaced by gas years ago...

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DonsDiscountGas an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Nobody, anywhere, is building new coal power plants. Approximately all new power is wind and solar. Which is good. But there is still a lot of installed capacity. And until new solar is cheaper than existing coal (which will be awhile, maybe never) then coal only decreases as plants shut down.

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zahlman an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> And until new solar is cheaper than existing coal (which will be awhile, maybe never) then coal only decreases as plants shut down.

Why wouldn't "existing solar is cheaper than existing coal, and existing coal is not required to meet demand" result in coal plants shutting down?

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ApolloFortyNine 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

China is. [1]

I don't get why people feel the need to just start lying when talking about renewables. It's probably a large reason why people are always skeptical of 'rewnewables are cheaper than x' claims.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/katharinabuchholz/2026/02/27/ch...

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f33d5173 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

China is.

	▲	dalyons an hour ago \| parent [-]
		and yet their coal usage has declined in the last two years, and is projected to continue declining.

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lastdong an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Not when the motto is “Burn baby burn”.

Trump plans $700 million in new coal support, White House official says

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401013

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Wacari 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

in large parts of the west! still good news

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bocytron 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And gas is not going down either.

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fsh 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Coal is much cheaper than gas.

	▲	usefulcat 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Is it cheaper per MW of generated power? I thought that the main reason use of gas has increased so much (for power generation) over the past 20-30 years is that gas became cheaper.
	▲	enoint an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Not per-MWh in North America.
	▲	citrin_ru 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Gas allows to use combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT) which is more efficient and it makes gas cheaper for electricity generation.