Study Forecasts Huge Fall in U.S Coal Burn Under Clean Power Plan: Just how big the coal burn fall is depends on how states comply with the rule

摘要

Depending on factors like how individual states respond with their own state implementation plans, coal burn at U.S. power plants could fall from a little less than 800 million tons in 2022, the first year for implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, to as low as less than 400 million tons in 2030, the final target year under the CPP. That is according to a new study on the plan written by Doyle Trading Consultants LLC's Sherry Orton. Doyle Trading Consultants, based in Colorado, has worked for several years in the area of coal markets, power plant data and issues consultancy.