Sentences with phrase «surpassed coal generation»
Natural gas generation first surpassed coal generation on a monthly basis in April 2015, and the generation shares for coal and natural gas were nearly identical in 2015, each providing about one - third of all electricity generation.
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Annual natural gas generation surpassed coal generation for the last six months of 2015, and came within 1 percent of annual coal generation for the first time in U.S. history.
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This year, for the first time ever, natural gas has surpassed coal in use for power generation in the United States.
Later, as more wind and solar capacity are added, renewable generation also surpasses coal - fired generation.
In April 2012, the last time monthly natural gas generation came close to surpassing coal - fired generation, spot prices for natural gas were near $ 2 per million Btu ($ / MMBtu) on a monthly average, before returning to about $ 3.50 / MMBtu in the last months of 2012.
BP expects renewables to surpass coal as the second - largest U.S. source of power generation by around 2030.
Although natural - gas generation fell between 2016 and 2017 from 35 percent to 32 percent of total national electricity production, it remained the primary fuel for power generation for the second year in a row, surpassing coal (around 30 percent) in 2016.
The International Energy Agency forecasts that renewables will become the leading source of new energy supply from now to 2040, surpassing thermal coal as the largest source of electricity generation by around 2030.