Which is one property of coal that makes it ideal for use in a power plant? It burns easily.
It makes ash.
It is renewable.
It contains mercury.

Coal burns easily and thus is ideal for use in a power plant.  

•To generate electric power in the United States, the main fuel used is coal.  

•It is used as it is burned easily and thus producing enormous amount of energy.  

•In the power plants, the lignite, bituminous coal, or subbituminous coal is burned.  

•The heat generated by the burning of the coal is used to transform water into high pressure steam that mediates a turbine, which generates electricity.  

•About 23 percent of the electricity in the United States is produced by the burning of coal.  

Thus, the correct answer is that coal burns easily.

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It burns easily & It produces a lot of energy

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