The EPA standards cited are on their way out but… narrative. Old coal is cheaper and more reliable than anything new…. but why let reality get in the way? Finally, personnel is policy. Anti-coal Obama holdovers are calling the shots.
TVA
TVA proposes to close Paradise, Bull Run coal units despite Trump tweet
Trump stumps to save TVA coal plant
Kentucky Residents Rally to try and Save TVA Coal-Fired Plant
“Residents in western Kentucky want to keep the last coal-fired power plant situated at a Tennessee Valley Authority generation station. Hundreds rallied over the weekend to try and save the coal-fired unit at the Paradise Fossil Plant…”
Source: Power-Eng.com
Kentucky Governor, Rand Paul press TVA to keep last coal plant operating
Obama holdovers aim to eliminate coal at TVA
Taxpayer-owned Tennessee Valley Authority was built on hydropower, nuclear and a large component of coal, and is one of the great industrial success stories in our history. Born in the Depression, expanded in World War II to make provide electricity for aluminum manufacturing, and then expanded again in the 70s to meet regional electric needs independent of OPEC and high oil prices, TVA accomplished all this with large amounts of coal. Now the siren song of “forever low” natural gas prices and the incorrect notion that renewables can substitute for coal, has TVA continuing down the path started in the Obama years of shutting in coal. On the website TVA says other sources of electricity generation are “cleaner” than coal, meaning no CO2 emissions. Wrong, TVA. CO2 is not a pollutant. Moreover, President Obama and the radical environmental left is no longer running Washington. Listen to the American people, protect your customers and preserve coal. Don’t forget to tell TVA to keep burning coal — the public comment period ends December 19.
Source: Platts
Battle to save TVA coal plants beginning
TVA is a government-run, and not a publicly owned utility. But BURN MORE COAL will be on the front lines for these plants, too. Draft public assessments are open for public comment until December 19.
