The United States should restart shuttered coal-fired power plants under President Donald Trump’s national energy emergency declaration, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a video interview with Bloomberg News on Monday.
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"I think as part of the national energy emergency which President Trump has declared we’ve got to keep every plant open. And if there have been units at a coal plant that have been shut down, we need to bring those back on," he said.
I don't know who would want to operate the unprofitable units, or who would pay to make up the difference, or if permanently-closed units are even in a state such that they could be reactivated. Companies with recently-retired plants may want to expedite major equipment demolition to ensure that they can't be roped into a bad plan.
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The United States should restart shuttered coal-fired power plants under President Donald Trump’s national energy emergency declaration, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a video interview with Bloomberg News on Monday.
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"I think as part of the national energy emergency which President Trump has declared we’ve got to keep every plant open. And if there have been units at a coal plant that have been shut down, we need to bring those back on," he said.
I don't know who would want to operate the unprofitable units, or who would pay to make up the difference, or if permanently-closed units are even in a state such that they could be reactivated. Companies with recently-retired plants may want to expedite major equipment demolition to ensure that they can't be roped into a bad plan.