The truth about Electrify America's progress and Traveling with the Mach E

[dbsb3233]

Wish we could just see the political talk STOP, whether constantly pushing "Green New Deal", red state-blue state politics, or whatever. All it does is annoy half the people and ruin a thread.

This forum is a lot more fun when it's not annoyingly political.

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[jhalkias]

Ohio has actually shut down all the coal fired electricity plants for Natural Gas.

 

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[timbop]

Ohio has actually shut down all the coal fired electricity plants for Natural Gas.

yes, but west virginia still gets 90% of their electricity from coal.

 

[Lukeh02]

Ohio has actually shut down all the coal fired electricity plants for Natural Gas.

Ohio still has 8 coal plants & 14 Natural gas

 

[eastern refugee]

I just left Baker, Ca and EA is close to finishing a station adjacent to Tesla. It appears to be able to charge a max of 16 cars at the same time.

 

[jhalkias]

Ohio still has 8 coal plants & 14 Natural gas

Yeah, I stand corrected. The transformation has not fully happened.

 

[DBC]

The economics are what is killing coal. Probably better stated in the past tense -- economics is what killed coal. Not hard to see the future in even in the current and unsubsidized prices per megawatt for the various alternatives:

Coal: $60-143
Wind: $29-56
Solar: $40-46
Nat Gas: $41-74

Coal fired plants are baseload but a variety of sources can make up for that. Plus batteries will be able to smooth out supply/demand imbalances at costs well below natural gas peakers.

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