L A Times - Essential California: California’s reliance on coal ending in November

One of the most consequential moments in California’s drive to beat back climate change will take place next month. The state will stop receiving electricity from the Intermountain Power Plant in Central Utah, meaning our reliance on coal as a source of power will essentially be over. The U.S. got nearly half its electricity from coal-fired plants as recently as 2007. By 2023, that figure had dropped to just 16.2%. California drove an even more dramatic shift, getting just 2.2% of its electricity from coal in 2024 . (However, the L. A. Department of Water and Power, has replaced their imported coal power by building a natural gas and hydrogen burning power station just across the street from Intermountain). Read MORE.