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Friday Chart: Rise and Fall (and comeback?) of Coal

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Friday Chart: Rise and Fall (and comeback?) of Coal

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Jun 10, 2022
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Friday Chart: Rise and Fall (and comeback?) of Coal

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All I’ve got for you today is one chart showing two things over time: 1. Total amount of electricity generated and consumed in the U.S. from 1949 through 2021, and 2. The total amount of coal burned to generate that electricity over the same time. I figure something about coal-burning is appropriate as a blistering heatwave—exacerbated by climate change (and therefore coal-burning) sweeps the nation.

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