Electric Utilities Retire Generating Capacity Faster Than They Bring it Online

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported last week that the electric utility industry retired 11.1 GW of generating capacity from January through October of 2013, while adding only about 10 GW of capacity.  Coal-fired and nuclear plants represent the largest and second largest shares of retired capacity respectively, the EIA reports.  Read more here.

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