{"id":78239,"date":"2018-05-04T07:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/natural-gas-prices-not-war-on-coal-were-key-to-coal-power-decline"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:12:38","slug":"natural-gas-prices-not-war-on-coal-were-key-to-coal-power-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/natural-gas-prices-not-war-on-coal-were-key-to-coal-power-decline","title":{"rendered":"Natural gas prices, not \u2018war on coal,\u2019 were key to coal power decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/natural-gas-prices-not-war-on-coal-were-key-to-coal-power-decline.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural gas and the availability of wind energy \u2013 not by environmental regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 2008 to 2013, coal dropped from about 50 percent of U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/power+generation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power generation<\/a> to around 30 percent,\u201d says Harrison Fell, an associate professor of resource economics at NC State and co-lead author of a paper on the work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoal boosters blamed stiffer regulations, calling it a \u2018war on coal.\u2019 But that same time period saw a steep drop in the cost of natural gas and an increase in wind <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/generation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">generation<\/a>. We wanted to know how big a role each of these factors played in driving down the demand for coal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-natural-gas-prices-war-coal.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;05-natural-gas-prices-war-coal.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes! New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural gas and the availability of wind energy \u2013 not by environmental regulations. \u201cFrom 2008 to 2013, coal dropped [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78249,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78239\/revisions\/78249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}