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Saturday, April 20, 2019

Midwest Power Generation Finally Shifts in Favor of Natural Gas Over Coal

MISO region fuel mix has never seen a day with gas fired generation exceeding coal until this month.  Over the last three years, coal output has exceeded gas by more than 5 BCFED at times.  Here is the daily amount by which coal generation exceeded gas since 2016:





The 7 day average GW output from coal and gas this year:


And the gas/coal relationship from a market share perspective, over the past 4 Aprils, shows a substantial increase for gas over prior years: