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When a plant is shuttered, the fly ash storage area must be cleaned up. I have a friend who drives a truck and has been making two drips daily from the plant to the disposal site, approximately 400 miles. He has been doing this for about three years, and has at least 4 more years left on this job. This was a viable plant. Not a big producer, but ran during peaks. Wasn’t worth it to upgrade to the new EPA pollution control requirements.

I ran such a power plant with the new pollution control requirements the EPA demanded, and we still had to shut the plant down because the additional equipment permanently increased production costs. Made it very difficult to profit, even though we served the metro NYC area.

This was all before the EPA had a chance to hit us again with even more environmental restrictions and requirements that were coming before Trump was elected.

We're not talking about just blue collar people here. A lot of people making 6 figure salaries lost their jobs over these policies, myself included.

We're not talking about just blue collar people here. A lot of people making 6 figure salaries lost their jobs over these policies, myself included.

I hope you had enough years to get your retirement.

No good reason to close the plants. They were/are being built in China/India and using some of the equipment, probably, from the shuttered plants.