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2015's Electricity Retirements: 80 Percent Coal Plants (arstechnica.com)
AmiMoJo writes: 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. Tracking the comings and goings from the electric grid can help provide a picture of the country's changing energy mix. The Energy Information Administration, which provides data on the US' electric grid, says 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. Note that much of the new generating hardware is wind and solar, but the plants being replaced often had low capacity factors due to their age and high pollutant output.
Anything hurting the Koch brothers is good news.
You know, if ole Bill had managed to control his pecker he'd quite possibly have been the best President in many decades. I didn't agree with everything he did by any means but he did have a pragmatic view of the world. Unfortunately by the sordid act of screwing around with bimbos, particularly in the oval office itself, he managed to give his political enemies the ammo they needed to nullify his later years in office. The way he managed to work with a hostile Republican congress to accomplish the rebuilding of the US economy was an amazing feat. Too bad the current President lacks those skills.