[deport]

Texas could certainly use some coal fired plants.

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Texas coal fired plants.

Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Electricity Generated by Fuel Type, 2007

[bereanway]

Recently Texas utilties have had to back off plans to construct new coal fired plants. Almost all of the recent power plant construction has been natgas. Unfortunately I’m served by natgas generation and my bills show it.

Natgas is too valuable an energy source to be used for fixed plant generation. Coal on the other hand is ideally suited for fixed plant but can’t be used in nearly the other applications as natgas.

Per kwh I’m in the top 5% (most expensive) in cost nationwide.

[bereanway]

Let me take the top 5% back. I just rechecked, the lowest average cost in the nation was Wyoming at 5.88 cents/kwh and Connecticut was highest at roughly 17.5 cents/kwh. I was over 14 cents last time I checked which made 6 or 7 states on average more expensive.

I'm no doubt higher than the Texas average due to the existing nuke and coal.