Well, it's not surprising.. To have a reliable grid there needs to be some backup the few days solar/wind fails. Grid stability and black starts are no joke.
Firerouge · 7h ago
Not applicable, "their owners and state regulators have determined they are no longer economic or needed"
dkiebd · 6h ago
And DOE disagrees.
toomuchtodo · 35m ago
That’s the neat part, you can just ignore them. Any consequences for continuing to shutdown and decommission these generators would be cheaper than what ratepayers would be paying to continue to run them. “You can just do things.” By the time any legal actions are resolved, it’ll be years from now after this admin is over.
You cannot be forced to turn coal generators back on that cannot be turned back on, or no longer exist.
amanaplanacanal · 1h ago
So where is the data? They should show their work on this one. Except they probably haven't done any, and it's strictly political.
Let's be a little bit generous here. It is true that entire communities, and a lot of them, depend on the coal mining industry. It is misguided to keep coal energy generation operational, but it's not "waste and abuse to own the libs".
We should come up with a better solution, including, of course, for those communities.
blitzar · 3h ago
Its extremely generous to assume that anyone thought about the 42,600 employed by the coal mining industry when it came to this policy.
_kulang · 2h ago
For a group that is so against social welfare…
scotty79 · 3h ago
> a lot of them, depend on the coal mining industry
Which means they depend on government subsidies that keep coal mining afloat. Which means they could be better served if they just received personal subsidies in form of basic income and be free to do literally anything else.
You cannot be forced to turn coal generators back on that cannot be turned back on, or no longer exist.
We should come up with a better solution, including, of course, for those communities.
Which means they depend on government subsidies that keep coal mining afloat. Which means they could be better served if they just received personal subsidies in form of basic income and be free to do literally anything else.