Trump’s DOE Issues Additional Orders to Illegally Force Indiana Coal Plants to Keep Burning Coal
earthjustice.org
The Trump Administration delivers coal for the holidays and higher electricity bills
    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 day ago

      It’s “gstting things done” when it’s big government you like, and “government waste” when it’s big government you don’t like.

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 day ago

    This article doesn’t explain how closing the power plants saves consumers money. It doesn’t explain how existing energy demands can be met in spite of the closures. It doesn’t explain why Trump wants them operational and his perceived benefits (even those unfounded and blatantly wrong). It doesn’t explain anything. This is a frustrating article.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      This article doesn’t explain how closing the power plants saves consumers money.

      If this is like most aging coal plants, they cost more to produce electricity than they can sell the electricity for. There’s a whole bunch of reasons for this but the short answer is that cheaper sources of electricity are available.

      It doesn’t explain how existing energy demands can be met in spite of the closures.

      Its attached to one of the largest power grids in North America, the PJM. Power generators bid for generation contracts once a year. There are dozens of other power plants stretching from New York into southern Ontario on this same grid. If the operator had scheduled this one for closure, that decision was likely made 2 to 4 years ago and all this time has been in planning for that transition.

      It doesn’t explain why Trump wants them operational and his perceived benefits (even those unfounded and blatantly wrong).

      It doesn’t sounds like the DoE provided any reasons, but we can likely guess this is trump and his cronies trying to destroy green energy and prop up more expensive and polluting fossil fuel sources to enrich themseleves.