[blueplum]

but it looked like such a noble and morally superior idea on paper...

[kiryandil]

Coconino County [Navajo Nation] has lost $40m a year in property taxes since the plant, just outside the town of Page, closed, Fowler said.

As a wise man once said about Democrat policies, and the Democrat voters:

Embrace the suck, chumps.

[Veggie Todd]

Lights out.

[redinIllinois]

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[Big Giant Head]

My brother retired from a coal fired plant. He’s going in once a week or so to write manuals to help train any new employees. Only, there’s not much luck finding any new employees.

They’re not running out of coal, but workers.

Same big government policies, same end result.

[Ikeon]

What happens when coal plants close? Its not the coal plant so much as it's the skills and experience.

Even If you have a brand new coal plant, it doesnt run on its own and simple mistakes or lack of experience dealing with day to day operation will be expensive. IE a boiler can quickly get out of hand a 2000 psi when someone hits the wrong button or shorts the control power to the condensate pumps by accident and boiler feed is lost.

[Adder]

None of this would have to hurt or happen if we would just build nuclear.

Wind and solar are just supplemental feel good theater.

[cymbeline]

“Increasingly outpaced by cheaper alternatives, including renewables ...”

And ‘cleaner’ conventional such natural gas.

Isn’t that a legitimate reason for shutting down a power plant? I expected to read that due to the shutdowns people weren’t getting their electricity.