[KennyBlanken]

> It’s also from focused efforts to close coal plants,

For many years coal has been more expensive than solar and wind. That's why utilities are decommissioning the plants.

[mbgerring]

It’s true, and the strategy of climate activists in the early 2000s and 2010s was to do everything they could to make coal and other fossil fuels as expensive as possible: by reducing access to capital, increasing the cost of legal and regulatory hurdles, sometime delaying projects through physical blockades, etc etc.

[amanaplanacanal]

It would be nice if we could get industries to pay for the pollution they cause, but I'll take what I can get.

[ZeroGravitas]

Some utilities didn't have direct market pressures to close coal because they were regulated and the regulator allowed them to recover costs plus a profit on top.