[thackney]

Coal and Natural Gas, but I don’t think you will see an increase of Oil being burned. Most of what oil is burned is the bottom of the crude barrel leftover after refineries have removed all the transportation type fuel. Residual oil (which has to be heater to flow decently) or Petroleum Coke (that is more like coal) is most of the “oil” used to generate power in the US.

[DoughtyOne]

Brought this table (below) over from: LINK


You were right.  If these figures are accurate, I was under a mis-impression that Petrol was used more broadly than it is.

It still remains to be seen what the nuclear produced energy will be replaced with, and looking at the most prevealent alternatives, it's not really a "greenie's" dream is it.

Natural gas would seem to be a viable alternative that they might not get too upset about.  You never know...

Thanks for the mention.


Units in table below are billion kilowatt hours.

Biomas	55.9
Coal	1994.0
Geothermal	14.9
Hydro	248.1
Natural Gas	876.9
Nuclear	806.0
Petrol Coke	14.2
Petrol Liquids	31.2
Solar P/V	0.8
Wind	52.0
Other Gases	11.6
Other	10.4