Electric cooperatives are still relying on coal for about a third of their output, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing the latest data, for 2019. Co-ops, which serve some 42 million people in the West in Midwest, sourced 32 percent of their electricity from coal two years ago, versus 23 percent for the United States as a whole.
This, according to the report, is because co-ops have less motivation to shift to wind and solar because of the lack of investor pressure on them. This, however, seems to be changing, as some co-ops want to make…Rural U.S. Falls Behind With Energy Transition
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