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Environment & Energy

kristopher

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1. "wind and solar energy are forcing coal and nuclear plants to shut down prematurely"

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Fri May 19, 2017, 10:55 AM

May 2017

Last edited Fri May 19, 2017, 03:25 PM - Edit history (1)

"...Perry has also been a strong advocate of the fossil fuel industry. He told Department of Energy staff that he wanted them to examine whether environmental regulations and tax credit programs that bolster wind and solar energy are forcing coal and nuclear plants to shut down prematurely. ..."

Nuclear plants do not shut down coal plants. In the centralized generation utility model, both types of these inflexible, large scale generating units are built with an explicit assumption that they will drive increases in energy consumption.

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"wind and solar energy are forcing coal and nuclear plants to shut down prematurely" kristopher May 2017 #1