Click on the link from Mary Ann to see how WV compares to surrounding states in electricity generation.
Jim Kotcon
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Kotcon jkotcon@gmail.com Date: Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [Coal Volunteers List] Interesting graphs on how each state's power mix has changed in past 10 years To: Ned Ford ned.ford@fuse.net Cc: coal-volunteers-list@sierraclub.org
Ned, it looks like the first chart on the link is the US total, and the numbers seem to match pretty closely with those from your chart, although it is not clear as this one ends in 2013. There have been some reports showing that fossil fuel use for electricity generation was up slightly in 2014, although that may have been weather related-due to the Polar Vortex and exceptionally cold winter in the eastern US.
I note that West Virginia is falling further and further behind other energy-producing states like Texas, Wyoming, the Dakotas and Illinois, in RENEWABLE energy generation.
Thank you for sharing.
Jim Kotcon
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Ned Ford Ned.Ford@fuse.net wrote:
This is particularly good because it is based on MWh generation, and avoids the mistake a lot of efforts make, which is to base assumed generation on the relative shares of capacity.
I wish they had included the total U.S. I'm pasting a graph that shows total U.S. data over a similar period.
- Ned
On 9/16/2015 1:17 PM, Mary Anne Hitt wrote:
Hello Beyond Coal team,
I wanted to pass along this very interesting set of graphs, created by NPR, on how each state's power mix has changed over the past 10 years, from 2004 - 2014. Fascinating to see the the fall of coal and the rise of renewables in so many states. While it's not all good news, especially the rise of gas in some places, the trends are pretty remarkable (and to my brothers and sisters in WV and KY, there's nowhere to go but up!). I thought you might enjoy geeking out on these as much as I did.
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/10/319535020/coal-gas-nuclear-hydro-how-your-stat...
Cheers, Mary Anne
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