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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1097008)	11/2/2018 9:55:57 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1576022

Coal Can’t Compete With Cheaper Alternatives and the Industry’s True Costs Are Higher Than They Appear ... Coal-fired power now supplies less than 24 percent of the electricity Texas generates, down from about about a third in 2017 following the closure of three large coal plants in early 2018. Luminant, the company that shuttered many of those plants called them “ economically challenged” even though coal is cheaper in Texas than on average in the U.S. Coal’s woes aren’t limited to Texas. As a result of the fuel’s competitive disadvantage, 275 of the nation’s 530 coal plants closed or were converted to natural gas between 2002 and 2018. desmogblog.com