Coal-fired power generation in 2019 is expected to drop a record 3%, or about 300 TWh in total, below that in 2018, analysts said in a report Monday. The drop in coal generation would be “more than the combined output from coal in Germany, Spain, and the UK last year,” according to the report authored by Lauri Mylluvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, Dave Jones, electricity and coal analyst at Sandbag, and Tim Bucknely, director at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. In the past three and a half decades, the analysis noted, only two other years had declines in coal generation – 2009 with a 148 TWh drop and 2015 with a 217 TWH drop. Within the OECD, the drop is largely driven by strong growth in wind and solar generation in 2019, in addition to decreasing […]