Naas: Xcel acknowledges massive cost of 100 percent renewables

[ray1970]

Or they could just randomly cut off service to paying customers like they do in California.

Last time I checked about 87% of electricity in the United States is still generated from coal. Almost 13% is from natural gas and less than 2% is generated from Nuclear sources. With big government having their hands all over energy production I don?t see any huge changes coming in my lifetime.

[Gman]

Or they could just randomly cut off service to paying customers like they do in California.

Last time I checked about 87% of electricity in the United States is still generated from coal. Almost 13% is from natural gas and less than 2% is generated from Nuclear sources. With big government having their hands all over energy production I don?t see any huge changes coming in my lifetime.

It's time for a refresher:
U.S. electricity generation by source, amount, and share of total in 2018

Energy source Billion kWh Share of total
Total - all sources 4,171
Fossil fuels (total) 2,653 63.6%
Natural Gas 1,469 35.2%
Coal 1,146 27.5%
Petroleum (total) 25 0.6%
Petroleum liquids 16 0.4%
Petroelum coke 9 0.2%
Other gases 13 0.3%
Nuclear 807 19.4%
Renewables (total) 703 16.9%
Hydropower 293 7%
Wind 273 6.5%
Biomass (total) 58 1.4%
Wood 41 1.0%
Landfill gas 11 0.3%
Municipal solid waste (biogenic) 7 0.2%
Other biomass waste -1 <0.1%
Solar 64 1.5%
Photovoltaic 60 1.4%
Solar thermal 4 0.1%
Geothermal 16 0.4%
Pumped storage hydropower3 -6 -0.1%
Other sources3 13 0.3%