Sentences with phrase «premature coal retirements»
Quanta used the 13 - state PJM region to illustrate what could happen in the near future because of premature coal retirements and lack of fuel security.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.
The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), echoing trade groups that lobby for other fuel sources including coal and gas, has said that a key factor for several premature retirements is the failure of RTO markets to value attributes of nuclear power.
The report estimated that regulations cutting emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides would lead to the «premature» retirements of coal - fired power plants that can generate 47.8 gigawatts of electricity, about 15 percent of coal's U.S. production capacity.
In a Friday memo, Perry asked his chief of staff to undertake a 60 day inquiry into «the extent to which continued regulatory burdens, as well as mandates and tax and subsidy policies, are responsible for forcing the premature retirement of baseload power plants,» such as those fueled by coal or nuclear energy, among other grid related questions.