The amount of electricity generated by coal since 2007 is down 40 percent as natural gas and renewable power capacity grows, the U.S. government reported. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said in a daily brief that coal accounted for about 30 percent of all of the electricity generated in the country last year. “As natural gas and renewables have increased their market shares of electricity generation over the past decade, coal generation has decreased,” the EIA’s report read. “Average annual net generation from coal-fired units reached an annual high of 2.0 billion kilowatthours in 2007 and has since fallen to 1.2 billion kilowatthours in 2016.” Energy-related CO2 emissions last year were down 1.7 percent from 2015 levels, consistent with […]