Natural Gas Electricity Generation in the United States Spiked with July Heatwave — Global Heating Leading to More Fossil Fuel Use

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Editor’s notice: Sadly, we’re already seeing examples of worldwide heating resulting in the burning of extra fossil fuels, which in fact is creating extra world heating. It’s a vicious cycle. Right here’s the most recent instance.

• U.S. energy plant operators generated 6.9 million megawatthours (MWh) of electrical energy from pure fuel every day within the Decrease 48 states on July 9, 2024, most likely essentially the most in historical past and definitely since at the very least January 1, 2019, once we started to gather hourly knowledge about pure fuel technology.
• The spike in pure gas-fired technology on July 9 was due to each excessive temperatures throughout a lot of the nation and a steep drop in wind technology.
• Based on the National Weather Servicea lot of the United States skilled temperatures properly above common on July 9, 2024. Temperatures have been significantly excessive on the West Coast and East Coast.
• Wind technology within the Decrease 48 states totaled 0.3 million MWh on July 9, 2024, a lot decrease than the 1.3 million MWh every day common in June 2024.

Principal contributors: Kimberly Peterson, Chris Peterson. Initially revealed on Today in Energy.