Even "clean coal" polluting giant Duke Energy doubts coal's future

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You kids starting to see that Trump's love of coal is meaningless and the future is natural gas and renewables

Duke gets it bigly!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/lynn-go...oal-1475460541

Utility executives are navigating a rapidly changing landscape: low prices, weak electricity demand and increasingly strict emissions rules.

Duke Energy Corp. DUK 0.22% , the giant utility based in Charlotte, N.C., is leading the charge among large, coal-heavy power producers toward natural gas, solar and wind power. But the company, which churns out electricity for 7.4 million customers in the Carolinas and four other states, still gets about one-third of its power from coal plants. It also has to clean up dozens of aging coal-ash ponds, the large, wet pools where the company disposes of the fly ash left over from burning coal at its power plants.

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Duke just built a coal fired electric plant here in fla when it took its nuclear plant off line. Why didnt they make this new one Gas ?

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Energy producers can see the writing on the wall.

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Duke just built a coal fired electric plant here in fla when it took its nuclear plant off line. Why didnt they make this new one Gas ?

Read the entire interview - all that will change on very short order.

Coal workers need retraining in far better paying, cleaner and safer work.

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Energy producers can see the writing on the wall.

Yep - Idaho Power is in the process of building a second solar farm - this one will be huge and you can actually buy in for about $600.

I'm still considering even though it's about a 15 year payback. But the buy-in stays with the address should you sell, so it adds value to property.