Alex Epstein

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Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein

Coal plants today provide 215 GW of reliable capacity—down >100 GW from just 10 yrs ago due to shutdowns. When plants were at retirement age and replaced more cheaply by gas plants, this made sense. But most coal was retired early, at great cost—and not sufficiently replaced. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 7, 2022

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Grid-destroying policy 2: imposing ruinous EPA rules on power plants Even though America’s coal plants provide >⅕ of our all-too-scarce reliable generating capacity, our government, largely through EPA, is trying to shut down most or all of these plants in the next 7.5 years. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 7, 2022

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We know that the electricity crisis Texas experienced in Feb. 2021 would have been much more widespread had it not been for our fleet of reliable, resilient coal plants. As OK Gov Kevin Stitt explained: “Renewable sources…dropped to almost zero…coal was really bailing us out.” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 7, 2022