SheepWhisperer :" As my grandma used to say; “don’t cut off your nose to spite your face”
This is the intentional destruction of the nation."
" The operator of a power grid in the mid-Atlantic is warning that the planned shutdown of a coal-fired power plant
could disrupt and short-change electrical supply before people can replace it."
"PJM Interconnection, the company that manages wholesale electricity in parts or the entirety of 13 states and provides electricity for more than 65 million Americans,
said that they expect the shutdown of the Brandon Shores coal power plant outside of Baltimore to disrupt the power there and leave it wanting.
The plant's owner, Talen Energy, made a deal with the environmentalist group Sierra Club to deactivate it by 2025 in order to diminish carbon dioxide outputs.
That deal may not be good for residents, however..."
( My Opinion) : welcome to the war of eliminating any power source that is based on petroleum products or miss-identified as "Fossil fuel",
especially when electricity from renewable energy alone is risky, at best.
The reliability of electric from heavily subsidized natural sources has been proven to be unreliable and sporadic, at best.
Remember the "10 days of Frozen in Texas", and the numerous needless deaths in Buffalo in a wind driven snow storm and over 5 foot snow drifts.
government creates the problem, then the people scream to government to “DO SOMETHING!”. Government then creates more draconian laws which further oppress the people, yet the people forget that government caused the problem.
...and the cycle continues, like slowly fencing in wild hogs, until the gate violently snaps shut.
Why is the Sierra Club bothering places in the east? They should stick to their own locale. Destroy that first.