by Dave Roberts » Sat Apr 03, 2021 6:41 am
I suspect that the future is still in flux and will be for some time, but I think the trends rightly reflect what is happening. In the area where I live, two massive natural gas generating facilities have been added to the grid in the past five years. At the same time, a coal facility about twenty miles from me has been mothballed. It is still kept ready for use, if needed, but there has been little steam rising there in recent years. Our area has a lot of forest products production, and Dominion Energy has one former coal plant that is now a "waste wood cogeneration facility." Solar farms dot parts of the landscape, and there are efforts being made to provide more offshore wind generation in the Atlantic about twenty miles off the coast, a project that has yet to provide electricity but seems to be strongly supported. It is definitely a time when energy production is in flux as to what the future will bring.