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Coal-fired power burn jumps 54% month on month in May: ERCOT
Coal-fired power burn in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas totaled 7.3 TWh in May, up 53.5% from 4.8 TWh in April, according to ERCOT’s latest Demand and Energy report, released on Friday.
Total energy rose 13.9% to 28.5 TWh in May, an increase of 3.5 TWh from a month earlier.
With the rise in coal-fired power burn outpacing growth in total electricity generation, coal …