Most of America’s dirty power plants will be ready to retire by 2035

[rangerrebew]

Most of America’s dirty power plants will be ready to retire by 2035
By Emily Pontecorvo on Dec 9, 2020
 

The U.S. energy transition is well underway. Electricity from solar and wind is increasingly competitive with natural gas power, and the grid is hemorrhaging coal plants that no longer make economic sense. But without any real national climate policy managing the decline of fossil fuels, the transition is scattershot, messy, and full of carnage.

Power companies announced more than 13 coal plant retirements this year, in many cases moving up previously announced closures and shortening the window of time the communities that live near and work at those plants have to think about what comes next. In May, a company called GenOn gave workers at one of its coal-fired power plants in Maryland just 90 days’ notice that it was closing.

https://grist.org/energy/most-of-americas-dirty-power-plants-are-old-enough-to-retire-by-2035/

[rangerrebew]

Too late.  St. Thunberg has us turning into ashes within about 8 years.

[Hoodat]

Electricity from solar and wind is increasingly competitive with natural gas power

No, it isn't.

the grid is hemorrhaging coal plants that no longer make economic sense.

This isn't true either.  Coal plants are being shut down because government is making it impossible for them to operate.  It has nothing to do with economics.  Coal is still far cheaper than solar or wind.  Which is why countries like India, Japan, and South Korea are buying every ton they can get.