NatGas Continues to Dominate in U.S. Electric Generation in 2024

We spotted a pair of articles noting a decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the U.S. energy sector in 2023. One of the articles, from the Bidenistas at the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), credits an increase in so-called renewable power generation as the main reason for the decrease. The second article, from Philadelphia attorney Dan Markind, who writes about the Marcellus, properly credits the decrease in CO2 emissions to the retirement of coal-fired power replaced by natural gas-fired power. However, a chart in the EIA article caught our attention and is why we titled this post the way we did. The indisputable fact is that natural gas continues to dominate power generation (the #1 fuel for powergen), which is unchanged in 2024 and for the foreseeable future.

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