Comment Comment by AnotherGoodName Coal usage peaked ~2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_coalJust in the past two weeks:Germany closing even new coal plants - https://reneweconomy.com.au/german-coal-plant-closes-after-j...Philipines will not build new coal plants due to economics. They will instead invest in grid scale storage and renewables - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-10/biggest-p...It's mostly economics. When other generation and storage systems drop by orders of magnitude in price in just 2 decades it throws the old equations out. There's no economic reason to build a coal plant today.https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2018/12/03/plu... parent AnotherGoodName 5 years ago
Just in the past two weeks:
Germany closing even new coal plants - https://reneweconomy.com.au/german-coal-plant-closes-after-j...
Philipines will not build new coal plants due to economics. They will instead invest in grid scale storage and renewables - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-10/biggest-p...
It's mostly economics. When other generation and storage systems drop by orders of magnitude in price in just 2 decades it throws the old equations out. There's no economic reason to build a coal plant today.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2018/12/03/plu...