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Today's Topics:
1. 'California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next
Month' (Stephen Loosley)
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:48:48 +1030
From: Stephen Loosley <[email protected]>
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Subject: [LINK] 'California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source
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California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month (latimes.com)99
Posted by EditorDavid on Monday October 13, 2025 @12:34AM from the going-green
dept.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/13/032224/california-will-stop-using-coal-as-a-power-source-next-month?
An anonymous reader shared this excerpt from a Los Angeles Times newsletter:]
One of the most consequential moments in California's drive to beat back
climate change will take place next month. The state will stop receiving
electricity from the Intermountain Power Plant in Central Utah, meaning our
reliance on coal as a source of power will essentially be over...
[T]he U.S. got nearly half its electricity from coal-fired plants as recently
as 2007. By 2023, that figure had dropped to just 16.2%. California drove an
even more dramatic shift, getting just 2.2% of its electricity from coal in
2024 ? nearly all of it from the Intermountain plant. Operators plan to cut off
that final burst of ions next month.
"And with improved technology to store power, the change has been made without
the power shortages that dogged the state up until 2020..."
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