12% of Texas coal fired power plant capacity to retire in 2018

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2017/10/13/texas-largest...

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Luminant officials said cheap natural gas and Texas' competitive energy market has gradually made these decades-old plants unprofitable. The state has also seen a boom in wind energy (it leads the nation) and increases in solar....

At one time, these were among the cheapest electricity producers in Texas.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 15, 2017 at 9:23

Wish they'd get rid of the other 88%. Burn some natural gas instead.

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