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EGEB: Expected US coal retirements surge, Europe could get 100% electricity from wind, NYC solar
https://electrek.co/2019/07/09/egeb-us-coal-retirements/The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Energy Infrastructure Update for April 2019, released last month, revealed that renewable capacity in the US surpassed coal for the first time. And the newest update reveals a large increase in expected coal plant retirements, just a month later.
Whereas the previous report revealed that 13,992 megawatts of coal capacity were set to be retired by May 2022, the newest FERC update now expects 17,054 MW of coal to be retired by June 2022. That’s a 3,000+ MW expected decrease in coal capacity, in an extra month’s time.
It’ll be interesting to see just how many more coal retirements will be expected within the next three years as these monthly updates continue.
Wind Potential
A new study published in Energy examines the overall potential for onshore wind energy in Europe. This is far from an original concept, but the researchers claim that “Despite this focus, previous estimates appear to have underpredicted both the amount of available future wind capacity as well as its performance.”
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