January 27, 2026–Written by John Egan for IIR News Intelligence (Sugar Land, Texas)–The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) most recent Electric Power Monthly report contained good news for coal producers: During the first 10 months of the second Trump administration, coal was used to generate more electricity when compared with the Biden years.
For the January-October 2025 period, the EIA said, about 616,331 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity was generated from coal by utility-scale generators, up 13% from about 544,431 MWh in the comparable year-earlier period, and 9% from the January-October 2023 period, when it was 567,541 GWh.
