California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month

An anonymous reader shared this excerpt from a Los Angeles Times newsletter:

One of the most consequential moments in California's drive to beat back climate change will take place next month. The state will stop receiving electricity from the Intermountain Power Plant in Central Utah, meaning our reliance on coal as a source of power will essentially be over...

[T]he U.S. got nearly half its electricity from coal-fired plants as recently as 2007. By 2023, that figure had dropped to just 16.2%. California drove an even more dramatic shift, getting just 2.2% of its electricity from coal in 2024 — nearly all of it from the Intermountain plant. Operators plan to cut off that final burst of ions next month.
'And with improved technology to store power, the change has been made without the power shortages that dogged the state up until 2020...'5

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