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To: Sdgla who wrote (1125866)	3/22/2019 2:32:06 AM
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Liar- in - Chief = Trump = Narcissist

To: Sdgla who wrote (1125866)	3/22/2019 8:04:32 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1574483

OOPS! Trump administration concedes coal is collapsing on its watch as renewables soar Under Trump, coal’s share of U.S. power mix falls to lowest level on record. JOE ROMMMAR 13, 2019, 12:14 PM thinkprogress.org GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE DONALD TRUMP HOLDS A SIGN SUPPORTING COAL DURING A RALLY IN WILKES-BARRE PA, ON OCTOBER 10, 2016. CREDIT: DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES. Coal production will drop nearly 8 percent in 2019, and then another 4.5 percent in 2020, according to a new Trump administration analysis. But over the same two years, total renewable power generation will rise 30 percent, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projected on Tuesday. So despite campaigning on a pledge to save the dirtiest of fossil fuels, President Donald Trump is overseeing a collapse in both domestic coal production and coal generation. Coal power is increasingly unprofitable in a world of cheap natural gas and rapidly dropping prices for renewable energy sources like solar and wind. THE EIA PROJECTS COAL'S SHARE OF THE US POWER MAX WILL KEEP DROPPING UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP. CREDIT: BLOOMBERG. TOP ARTICLES1/5READ MOREWATCH: How Fox helps Trump weaken our democracy In fact, the EIA’s March “Short-Term Energy Outlook” projects that coal’s share of the U.S. power mix will drop from 27.4 percent in 2018 to 24.7 percent this year — its lowest level on record — and then to 23.4 percent in 2020. Meanwhile, the EIA projects that wind, solar, and other non-hydropower renewables will rise from 10 percent of U.S. electricity generation in 2018 to 11 percent in 2019 and 13 percent in 2020. Significantly, the EIA “expects wind’s annual share of electricity generation will exceed hydropower’s share for the first time” in 2019. And while hydropower’s share is expected to remain flat for the foreseeable future, wind power continues to soar. So what went wrong for Trump? After all, he had said he would end President Barack Obama’s supposed “war on coal.” But in reality he presided over a faster rate of coal plant retirements in his first two years than Obama saw in his entire first term. The reality is no such war ever existed. The inescapable problem for coal was — and still is — economics, not politics. As one leading industry analyst explained last year, under Trump “ the economics of coal have gotten worse.” Wyoming’s coal plants are so unprofitable Republicans turned to a ‘socialist program’ to save them The ongoing price drops in wind and solar power mean that in many areas, building and running new renewables is now cheaper than just running old coal plants. And new renewables have actually become more affordable than new natural gas plants. So we can expect coal’s steady decline in power generation to continue, while solar and wind will keep soaring.

To: Sdgla who wrote (1125866)	3/22/2019 8:16:28 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1574483

OOPS! Under Trump, coal’s rate of collapse to be ‘more than twice’ what analysts previously projected'; The economics of coal have gotten worse' under Trump JOE ROMMMAY 9, 2018, 12:49 PM thinkprogress.org PRESIDENT TRUMP AT A RALLY IN HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA, AUGUST 3, 2017. CREDIT: SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Despite President Trump’s repeated promises to resuscitate the collapsing U.S. coal industry, top energy-industry analysts project a faster than expected pace of coal plant retirements in the coming years. Over the next decade, 73 gigawatts of coal will retire — representing one quarter of current U.S. coal capacity — according to Bruce Hamilton, a Director in Navigant Consulting’s Energy Practice, which has analyzed every U.S. plant. “That’s more than twice what we projected last year at this time,” Hamilton said at the American Wind Energy Association’s Windpower 2018 conference Tuesday, Forbes reports. “The economics of coal have gotten worse,” he explained, “with costs going up, while the competition for coal — that is, gas, wind and solar — has all gotten cheaper.” TOP ARTICLES1/5READ MOREWATCH: How Fox helps Trump weaken our democracy Unprofitable coal plants now play ‘game of chicken’ to survive, says Bloomberg Yet, Navigant’s coal forecast was conservative compared to that of other speakers. For instance, Dan Shreve, a partner at MAKE Consulting, forecast that coal retirements over the next decade could hit 80-90 GW. And Max Cohen, an Associate Director at IHS Markit, said they are projecting “about 100 Gigawatts of coal retirements. That’s about a third of the fleet.” During his presidential campaign, Trump said he would end President Obama’s supposed “war on coal.” But the fundamental problem for coal is economics, not politics. Coal power plants are simply becoming t oo expensive to operate compared to natural gas and renewable energy. Indeed, building and running new wind and solar farms is now cheaper than just running existing coal plants in many places. New study reaches a stunning conclusion about the cost of solar and wind energy The main fight now is how much of the shuttering coal capacity will be replaced by natural gas, and how much will be replaced by renewables. Solar and wind provided 98 percent of all new U.S. power capacity in January and February, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reported last month. FERC projects that renewables will provide 69 percent of new capacity by March 2021. Forget coal, solar will soon be cheaper than natural gas power In the 2020s, renewables seem poised to capture a growing share of the market, given how rapidly their prices are dropping — and given that the price of electricity storage, especially lithium-ion batteries, is coming down just as quickly.

To: Sdgla who wrote (1125866)	3/22/2019 8:17:40 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1574483

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