re: #93 John Neverbend

I had thought with the collapse in natural gas prices, that major users were switching from coal to gas, although at the same time, EUA prices have fallen, so it’s not so costly to use dirtier coal and load up on EUAs. Is this what caused the fossil fuel use to increase?

No, what caused it to increase is the inconstancy of the clean solutions minus nuclear energy. You need a baseload source for solar on cloudy days and overnight, you need baseload source for Wind on windless days. The more wind and solar and less nuclear the Euros used, the more coal and gas they found themselves needing.