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Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid

Ars Technica Science Fri, 22 Ma
Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid

Last year, the first few months of data from the US grid suggested that fears of a data-center-driven surge in demand were becoming a reality. Demand had risen by about 3 percent, triggering a surge in coal, interrupting what had been a long downward trend. But over the course of the year, both trends slowed considerably. A year later, all of that seems to be in the past, as the US has returned to its normal pattern: slow growth, with renewables pushing coal off the grid. The one oddity is that

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