Yeah just in the past few years a small handful of coal plants in Texas have been permanently shut down. It was around 6,000 MW of capacity if I recall. That might have been helpful.
It's everywhere too, there's a couple I read about in Arkansas that are being planned to be shut down in the next 10 years. The reasoning I could find as to why is they were massively losing money because of judgements and/or settlements from court cases brought up by green activist groups. So not because they are old and require too much maintenance or whatever, but because they are getting sued to death.
That's pretty standard policy for the Left in regards to lawfare: create burdensome regulations with harsh fines, then file endless lawsuits until you ban the companies from operating entirely.
Yeah just in the past few years a small handful of coal plants in Texas have been permanently shut down. It was around 6,000 MW of capacity if I recall. That might have been helpful.
It's everywhere too, there's a couple I read about in Arkansas that are being planned to be shut down in the next 10 years. The reasoning I could find as to why is they were massively losing money because of judgements and/or settlements from court cases brought up by green activist groups. So not because they are old and require too much maintenance or whatever, but because they are getting sued to death.
That's pretty standard policy for the Left in regards to lawfare: create burdensome regulations with harsh fines, then file endless lawsuits until you ban the companies from operating entirely.