Weather: Understanding El Nino

El Niño is a climate phenomenon that occurs irregularly in the tropical Pacific Ocean, characterized by the warming of sea surface temperatures, which can significantly impact weather patterns worldwide. During normal conditions, the trade winds blow from east to west across the tropical Pacific, pushing warm surface waters towards the western Pacific near Indonesia. This…

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EIA Projects Coal Capacity Will Decrease 

Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2023 (AEO2023) The EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2023 projects that U.S. coal-fired generating capacity will drop below half of 2022 levels by 2050. In a scenario assuming higher zero-carbon technology costs than in our base case, called the Reference case, we project coal-fired capacity will drop 52% to 97…

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