Posted on 06/01/2018 1:08:32 PM PDT by Innovative
.S. President Donald Trump on Friday directed Energy Secretary Rick Perry to take emergency steps to keep at-risk coal and nuclear plants running, the White House announced.
Under the directive, Perry would require grid operators to buy electricity from ailing nuclear and coal-fired power plants to keep them from being shuttered.
Unfortunately, impending retirements of fuel-secure power facilities are leading to a rapid depletion of a critical part of our nations energy mix, and impacting the resilience of our power grid, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
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Agreed...
Not necessarily so.
Many perfectly viable power plants were seriously hurt by Obama Era regulations specifically intended to shut them for political reasons.
After eight years of Obama mandated economic siege many of these plants have been left on shaky economic ground and are in danger of going bankrupt through no fault of their own
The big problem right now is lack natural gas supply in the winter when it also is used for heating. The older coal and fuel oil plants have been taking up the slack, sometimes only running for a month out of the year when needed. But they need to be compensated for being available to run, they can’t survive making money running a few days a year. New England ISO is projecting blackouts if something isn’t done. Gas pipelines are being blocked too.
Why coddle the RATs? They hate it, they should get what they ask for; the RAT-cities need to go dark.
There are other (not necessarily new) nuclear technologies that need to be developed and implemented; thorium reactors, re-constituted fuel rods etc. Otherwise, we don't need another freaking Fukishima.
Maine is a net exporter of electric power. Where does it go? To the big RAT-cities.
Does that mean with all that surplus power, that Maine residents get cheap power?
HELL-to-the-NO!
That's a foolish waste of a valuable resouce, we could be making petrochemicals including gasoline from it.
Power production from NG is like washing dishes with Chivas Regal. You could do it, but.....
I agree
What I wonder is why there s not cevelopment of small nuclear generating plants rather than the very large regulation damaged large plants.
I worked many years off and on on the constrution of large nuclear plants and witnessed the destruction by a thousand cuts.
It's cheaper than coal.
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