US coal-fired power generation totaled 66.9 TWh in October, US Energy Information Administration data showed Monday, a year-on-year decrease of 23.6%, the largest such decline since March 2016. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Output by coal-fired units also slumped 22.2% compared with September’s total, according to the EIA data. The generation total was 31% below the five-year average of about 96.9 TWh, the highest such deficit in five months. Coal took a 20.8% share of the entire US generation stack in October, down 2.1 percentage points from its September share of the pie and the lowest slice in seven months. Coal-fired units operated at an average of 39.3% of capacity in October, compared with 51.6% the month before and 48.9% in the year-ago month. Additionally, […]