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Despite President Donald Trump’s executive orders to increase coal use, many power plants are set to stop using it this year.
Fifteen coal-fired power plants nationwide are set to shut down this year or convert to natural gas.
That reflects the overwhelming direction of the electric power market, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
No new coal plant has been built in the United States in more than a decade. The capacity of coal-fired generation nationwide has fallen nearly 50% since its peak.
What’s more, the actual generation of coal plants has fallen even faster, by more than 60%.
That means the nation’s remaining coal plants, including those in West Virginia, are idle more often because cheaper resources are first in line, including natural gas, wind and solar.
Even in coal-dependent West Virginia, the primary producers of electricity have said they are considering, or have plans to convert their coal plants to natural gas in the coming years.
