The U.S. Department of Energy’s report on electricity markets and the grid says the rise of natural gas has hurt the coal industry.
The long-awaited report, released Thursday, finds the natural gas boom — seen locally in southwestern Pennsylvania with the Marcellus and Utica shales — has been a big factor in the closing of coal-fired power plants here and elsewhere, and lowering the demand for coal and nuclear power. Natural gas in 2016 surpassed coal as the source of the most electricity…
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