Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities are terminating the company’s contract with coal producer Consol Energy.
This news in and of itself isn’t huge—to put it in perspective, LG&E/KU burns 16 million tons of coal a year, and the company’s contract with Consol was only for 500,000 tons. But it was a good excuse to take a look at how the utility uses coal, and how its usage might change in the future.
