The last coal plant in New England shut down here in NH last year.
We are running off of Methane and Nuclear primarily.
Eversource which is the main utility in New England gives a breakdown something like the following for electric production:
Natural gas 52-57%
Nuclear(Seabrook, NH) 22-27%
Hydro dams 8-9%
Trash(we burn most of it) 3%
wood waste(tree tops) 3%
wind 3-5%
solar 3-6%
Our problem is that we do not get the sun that you or other SW US places receive. Especially in the winter.
So, our solar & wind is variable. We can not count on it for base line power like you can.
Our solar production from June-August is probably 10X what it is in Dec-Feb.
The nuclear plant at Seabrook and the Natural gas burning plants provide all the base line power. Along with trash.
We continue to produce trash 24/7.
If you look in my post history you will see I am HUGE nuclear fan, especially fast spectrum reactors and SMR reactors factory built like Henry Ford style.
I know people at Aalo in Austin they are doing sodium cooled modular reactors they are dry cooled to the air they use zero water because sodium runs so much hotter 500-560C than water based tech you can dump heat as 45C air and still trounce 300C to 30C water based cycles.
That far north you want vertical bifacial solar panels. Much more winter output , snow cannot stick to them being vertical and the reflections nearly double the output as well like 60% more
https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1844102046871666963