US on pace for record coal retirements in 2018, IEEFA finds

Utility Dive: The IEEFA report highlights the accelerating trend of coal plant retirements, but also illustrates just how much of the carbon-heavy resource is still left on U.S. power grids.

The U.S. will retire more than 36 GW of coal capacity by 2024, but will still have more than 200 GW of coal on the system at that point, according to the think tank.

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