WSJ: US consumes more renewables than coal for the first time in 134 years

“The shift from coal is widely ex­pected to con­tinue for the fore­see­able fu­ture as util­i­ties com­mit to am­bi­tious goals to ad­dress cli­mate change. That is ex­pected to ac­cel­er­ate clo­sures of coal-fired power plants al­ready chal­lenged to com­pete with nat­ural-gas, wind and so­lar sources, which are all now cheaper forms of power than coal.”