We have plenty of power plants but the democrats keep shutting them down!! Deliberately raising electric costs which raises the costs of everything else.
The Republicans also voted for the EPA clean air acts. Coal plants are being shutdown due to the costs of retrofitting the stacks to capture actual pollution. Coal plants put out massive amounts of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, lead, Mercury and ash particulates in the extremely harmful 2.5 microns and smaller size that get into people lungs and lodge permanently. My lake house is on a lake where you cannot eat the Bass or Stripers due to unsafe levels of mercury the lakes watershed is in the rain shadow of two former large coal plants 100% of the lead and mercury in the water and food chain in that lake is from the decommissioned coal plants exhaust SMU did an extensive study complete with isotopic fingerprinting to the coal ash piles and stack Emission. Good bye and good riddance to dirty coal plants. Convert them to burn clean natural gas or spend $100 million to put full stack scrubbers that use ESP precipitation for PM2.5 then acid gas scrubbers for SOx & NOx, then bag house hepa with charcoal filters to grab the lead and mercury in the stack gasses. All of that is needed to bring coal to just clean air act compliance which is still an order of magnitude more polluting than burning natural gas which has zero lead,Mercury, sulfur or particulates. Nukes are the cleanest power source they release trace amounts of argon, krypton, and tritium gasses which are diluted to part per billion levels by the time they reach the plant gate. Solid fuel “wastes” are 96% fuel that can be recycled into new fuel the remaining 4% is short lived fission products and long lived fission products. Both of which should be turned into a borated silica rock and put down a 5 km still shaft into solid geologically stable Granite that has been in the same spot for a billion years or more. The silica waste rock should be placed from 5km to 3km and the top 2km cemented in with alternating layers of bentonite and cement. The geothermal gradient is such that at those depths the rocks are hotter than the waste heat from the wastes which means there is no thermal drive mechanism to ever have the waste migrate up bore.