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Coal power in the United States: Measurement, Phase-out & Trends, comparisons, and forecasts

Coal generated about 16% of the electricity at utility-scale facilities in the United States in 2023, down from 39% in 2014 and 51% in 2001. Utilities buy more than 90% of the coal consumed in the United States. There were almost 200 coal power plants across the United States in 2026. Coal plants have been closing since the 2010s due to cheaper and…

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Coal power in the United States topic overview

The analysis highlights Measurement, Phase-out and Trends, comparisons, and forecasts as prominent areas in the source structure around Coal power in the United States.

Related topics
70
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
76
Extracted relationships
10
Related term clusters
32
Bridge connections
76

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Phase-out · 24 topics
Overview · 14 topics
Trends, comparisons, and forecasts · 13 topics
Death and disease · 9 topics
Environmental impacts · 6 topics
Public debate · 4 topics

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Overview

Trends, comparisons, and forecasts

Death and disease

Environmental impacts

Public debate

Phase-out

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How Coal power in the United States connects Entity context

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Important terminology

coal plants power electricity states united energy gas new coal-fired natural us 2007 plant environmental emissions generation pollution state texas

Coal power in the United States relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 10 structured relationships around Coal power in the United States. Examples in this analysis include scrubbers → instance of → Due to measures and future price of natural gas → instance of → The extent of shutdowns and reduction in utilization depend on factors. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
scrubbersinstance ofDue to measures0.80text
air pollution from the plants kills far fewer people nowadaysinstance ofDue to measures0.80text
but still estimated at thousands each year with 1600 deaths in 2020 from PM25 aloneinstance ofDue to measures0.80text
future price of natural gasinstance ofThe extent of shutdowns and reduction in utilization depend on factors0.80text
cost of installation of pollution control equipmentinstance ofThe extent of shutdowns and reduction in utilization depend on factors0.80text
air pollution from coal plants killed far fewer people by the 2020sinstance ofDue to measures0.80text
the American Wind Energy Associationinstance ofEnvironmental groups0.80text
leading Democrats praised the bill.TexasIn 2006instance ofEnvironmental groups0.80text
a coalition of Texas groups organized a campaign in favor of a statewide moratorium on new coal-fired power plantsinstance ofEnvironmental groups0.80text
leading Democrats praised the billinstance ofEnvironmental groups0.80text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Coal power in the United States bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Plants, Coal-fired and Power. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Coal power in the United States
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  • electricity at utility-scale facilities in the united states
    • United
    • Generation
    • Coal-fired
    • Us
    • Share
    • Power
    • New
    • States
    • Emissions
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    • Gas
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    • Power
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  • greenhouse gas emissions by the united states
    • United
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    • Carbon
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    • Share
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    • Plants
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    • Needed
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    • Texas
    • Environmental
  • united states secretary of energy
    • United
    • Renewable
    • Coal-fired
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    • Energy
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    • Capacity
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  • greenhouse gas emissions
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Coal power in the United States, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Coal power in the United States with Phase-out. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Coal power in the United States — Phase-out · splits 52 ⟂ 25
Coal power in the United States — Overview · splits 62 ⟂ 15
Coal power in the United States — Trends, comparisons, and forecasts · splits 63 ⟂ 14
Coal power in the United States — Death and disease · splits 67 ⟂ 10
Coal power in the United States — Environmental impacts · splits 70 ⟂ 7
Coal power in the United States — Public debate · splits 72 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Coal power in the United States

Nodes77
Edges76
Triples10
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025974
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Coal power in the United States to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Measurement, Phase-out & Trends, comparisons, and forecasts, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Coal power in the United States · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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