EIA’s Electric Power Monthly – July 2019 Edition with data for May

A Guest Post by Islandboy

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The EIA released the latest edition of their Electric Power Monthly on July 24th, with data for May 2019. The table above shows the percentage contribution of the main fuel sources to two decimal places for the last two months and the year 2019 to date. In April, the EIA in their Short-Term Energy Outlook projected that the contribution from All Renewables would exceed that from Coal for the first time ever in April and possibly in May. While that turned out to be the case in April, in May electricity generation from coal was slightly greater than the amount generated by All Renewables and the EIA expects Coal to generate more than All Renewables each month through to April 2019. Read More

EIA’s Electric Power Monthly – June 2019 Edition with data for April

A Guest Post by Islandboy

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The EIA released the latest edition of their Electric Power Monthly on June 25th, with data for April 2019. The table above shows the percentage contribution of the main fuel sources to two decimal places for the last two months and the year 2019 to date. As was projected by the EIA in their Short-Term Energy Outlook in April (reported here), the contribution from All Renewables exceeded that from Coal for the first time ever. The EIA featured this news on their Today in Energy page on June 26th, the day after the data was published. Read More