The United States generated more electricity from coal between January and April 2025 than it did during the same period in 2024, when the Biden administration was waging its assault on the energy resource, according to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). [emphasis, links added]
Coal power generation climbed nearly 25% in early 2025 compared to the same window in 2024, fueled by deregulation, surging electricity demand and elevated natural gas prices, according to EIA data and expert analysis shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Though former President Joe Biden cracked down on the coal industry with stringent regulation, President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders to boost the coal industry and his administration has targeted harsh Biden-era rules on coal plants to secure the power grid.
“The increase in coal generation reflects the reality that we need much more electricity and burning more coal is the cheapest, fastest and most reliable way to produce it,” Senior Policy Fellow at the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute Steve Milloy told the DCNF.
“The growth in electricity demand comes after about 15 years of flat demand. But with AI and the re-industrialization of America, demand is back and so is coal.”
Electricity consumption is projected to hit a record high in the next several years, with demand expected to increase in the commercial sector by 8% over 2025 and 2026, according to EIA data.
Power demand will surge by up to 25% by 2030, according to a recent ICF International report.
America’s skyrocketing power demand presents an “urgent need” for electricity resources, according to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a major grid watchdog.
Trump declared a national energy emergency on his first day back in the Oval Office, and demand for electricity has surged as energy infrastructure ages and is phased out, all while the expectancy of power-hungry data centers grows as the tech sector races to expand the technology.
Though former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry claimed in November 2021 that the United States would completely phase out coal power as an energy source by 2030, several coal plants have delayed retirement so far in 2025 in order to help meet America’s energy needs.
“What we’re seeing is a return to common sense. American businesses and grid operators are realizing that affordable, reliable energy, not virtue signaling about so-called ‘green energy,’ is the foundation of economic prosperity,” Founder and CEO of the American Energy Institute Jason Isaac told the DCNF.
“The uptick in coal generation reflects an urgent need to keep the grid stable and costs manageable for working families.”
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Those Useful idiots those Keep it in the Ground fools need to totally go Cold Turkey on Fossil Fuels for a Year and see what its like and that means the Transportation of the everyday products their so used to its going to surprise them big time
Everybody needs to know the ABC of intermittent energy and the President Could issue an executive order for all weather reports to indicate the amount of wind and solar in the local grid at the time.
That will indicate how often the lights will go out at night when there is less coal in the system.
People can then confront their local representatives and tell them to defy the vested interests that are driving the policies of both parties and vote responsibly on energy issues or they will not be in the House after the next election.
The ABC OF INTERMITTENT SOLAR AND WIND POWER
WHY WIND CAN’T REPLACE COAL
A. Input to the grid must continuously match the demand.
B. The continuity of RE is broken on nights with little or no wind.
C. There is no feasible or affordable large-scale storage to bridge the gaps.
So the transition to wind and solar power can’t proceed with current storage technology.
Wind droughts happen.
Many people assume that the wind is always blowing somewhere not far away but there are periods of very little wind power, approaching zero, across the whole of the SE Australia for periods up to 3 days.
BECOME WIND LITERATE : LOOK AT THE DASHBOARD FOR YOUR LOCAL GRID
THIS IS SOUTH EAST AUSTRALIA
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/reneweconomy/
THIS IS TEXAS (ERCOT)
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4.20PM TODAY GAS 44%, COAL 12, NUC 8 , SOLAR 23, WIND 13
Conventional power 64% RE 36%
SEE THE FIGURES OVERNIGHT WHEN IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE WIND AND CONVENTIONAL POWER!
Sadly there is massive resistance to building more.coal capacity due to the minefield of regulations planted by Obama and Biden, supported by blue states. Increased output almost certainly comes from higher short-term capacity factors responding to demand.
More installed capacity is urgently required but some Republican lawmakers are yielding to the RE lobbies to frustrate the elimination of RE subsidies and mandates.
The public need to know why wind won’t work so they will demand better behavior from their local representatives.
Sadly there is massive resistance to building more.coal capacity due to the minefield of regulations planted by Obama and Biden, supported by blue states. Increased output almost certainly comes from higher short-term capacity factors responding to demand.
More installed capacity is urgently required but some Republican lawmakers are yielding to the RE lobbies to frustrate the elimination of RE subsidies and mandates.
The public need to know why wind won’t work so they will demand better behavior from their local representatives.